I was on the road early this morning to give the Keynote opening address at the National Conference of Business and Professional Women Australia - the title of my address is "Hope, Aspiration and Opportunity". Hope that we can achieve equity for women around the world, aspiration in the sense that comes from hope to build careers and success and opportunity in terms of seizing it. As ex- Officio Director of the Board of the United Nations Global Compact i can't wait to put the message out there - that across the world we must do more for girls and women who still face oppression, domestic violence, lack of access to opportunity and the basic fundamental right of being equal amongst us all.

1. Business and Professional Women
Australia, National Conference
“Hope, Aspiration and Opportunity”
Ettalong, NSW Australia November 17th 2013
Matthew Tukaki, Chairman of the Sustain Group
Director of the Board of the United Nations Global Compact

2. About the United Nations Global Compact
The worlds largest corporate citizenship movement
More than 7,500 business signatories around the
world
Focussed on business and human rights, anticorruption,

3. The key facts
The hard hitting reality of the
facts when it comes to girls…

4. Globally, 66 million girls are out of school
80% of all human trafficking victims are girls
There are 33 million fewer girls than boys in primary school
75% of AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa—the region
hardest hit by the disease—are women and girls

5. In a single year, an estimated 150 million girls are
victims of sexual violence
50% of all the sexual assaults in the world are on
girls under 15
14 million girls under 18 will be married this year; 38
thousand today;
13 girls in the last 30 seconds
The #1 cause of death for girls 15-19 is childbirth

6. Girls with 8 years of education are 4 times less likely to be
married as children
A child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to
survive past the age of 5
A girl on planet earth has a 1 in 4 chance of being born
into poverty
A girl with an extra year of education can earn 20% more
as an adult

7. Women operate a majority of small farms and business in
the developing world
If India enrolled 1% more girls in secondary school, their
GDP would rise by $5.5 Billion
There are 600 million girls in the
developing world…and counting

8. HOPE

9. Aspiration

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Aspiration
At 8 I wanted to be a museum director
At 10 I wanted to be a chemist
At 12 I wanted to be a business man and make extreme amounts of money
At 16 I was lost
At 17 I found myself – and decided I wanted to be a student politician
At 18 I ran for parliament
At 19 I fell in a heap
At 20 I wanted to be a business man and make extreme amounts of money
At 34 I was running a multi-billion corporation
At 38 the Secretary General of the UN appointed me to the governing board of a UN
institution
At 39 I reached my goal for this decade
At 40 I’ve decided to be global
At 50 I want to have a lot of money so I can farm, raise goats and relax
By 50 years old and 1 month I will be bored stiff

11. Opportunity

13. For those interested in partnering with
the United Nations Sytem:
business.un.org

14. matthew.tukaki@sustaingroup.net
www.unglobalcompact.org.au
Thank you