Girls Know What Girls Need
Adolescent girls are absolutely vital to conversations about gender equality. Through our Advocacy initiatives, girls develop the skills to advocate for the issues most important to them both in their communities and globally. We amplify girls’ voices and sponsor their participation in international forums so their calls to action can inform global policymaking. Because decisions about girls should be made by girls.
The Global Girls Glow Girl Advocacy Committee
Each year, Global Girls Glow welcomes girl advocates from around the world to join our Girl Advocacy Committee. These Representatives, who have developed a foundation for their advocacy skills in GLOW Club, join monthly virtual meetings to discuss challenges girls are facing worldwide while learning with fellow youth advocates and advancing their plans to positively impact their communities.
Girl Advocacy Committee Representatives annually make girls’ recommendations heard at United Nations forums such as International Day of the Girl and the Commission on the Status of Women. Get to know the representatives here.
Local Advocacy Summits
In 2024, we’re working with 12 of our implementing non-profit partners across six countries to implement girl-led Local Advocacy Summits. These entirely girl-led summits, informed by the United Nations Conversation Circle model, will utilize our newly-created Global Girls Glow Local Advocacy Toolkit and allow GLOW Club members to facilitate crucial grassroots conversations to have their voices, concerns, and lived experiences heard by community leaders.
My vision is to help fellow girls achieve their dreams. I advocate for girls so they can be allowed to go to school and enjoy their childhood.
-Hope, 14, Kenya, Girl Advocacy Committee Alumna
Our work with the UN
Global Girls Glow holds special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC). Executed by the UN ECOSOC and outlined in Article 71 of the UN Charter, non-governmental organizations holding a consultative role can meaningfully engage in and address UN deliberations. This status enables Global Girls Glow to formally consult international policymakers by expanding the organization’s access and influence to international conferences to ensure that girls’ voices are reflected in international policy decisions.
As proud members of the Working Group on Girls and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, Global Girls Glow is actively engaged and committed to girls advocacy and inclusion at the UN. Each year, we bring girls together to participate in the Commission on the Status of Women and the annual International Day of the Girl Girls’ Speak Out at the UN.
Policy endorsements
As part of our commitment to girls advocacy, Global Girls Glow works to further girls’ calls to action through the endorsement of girl-led and girl-informed policy and statements directed towards United Nations Member States and UN agency Representatives. These statements petition everyone with decision-making power to take action towards a just world for girls. We invite you to review some of the past statements and policies we have signed on to as an organization below:
68th Commission on the Status of Women Working Group on Girls Statement
68th Commission on the Status of Women- Joint Statement
67th Commission on the Status of Women: Girls’ Statement
67th Commission on the Status of Women: Working Group on Girls Statement
67th Commission on the Status of Women: Joint Statement
66th Commission on the Status of Women: Girls’ Statement
65th Commission on the Status of Women: Girls’ Statement
65th Commission on the Status of Women: Working Group on Girls Statement
66th Commission on the Status of Women: Working Group on Girls Statement
