The document discusses empowering women and girls through achieving gender equality. It highlights five bold women driving change for women's human rights through initiatives like secret schools in Afghanistan and the first women's fund in Mexico. Women's human rights include the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination, as well as rights to education, property ownership, voting, and equal wages. The goals of empowering women include providing equal access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as greater representation in political and economic decision making. Woman abuse and trafficking disproportionately impact women and girls worldwide. The document profiles Malala Yousafzai, who advocates for girls' education and survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban for her work

1. Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and
girls

2. Women’s Human Rights
Global Fund for Women has a long history of supporting women who are disrupting the
status quo and building powerful social movements for women’s rights. From creating secret
schools for girls in Afghanistan to launching the first-ever women’s fund in Mexico to get
more money to grassroots women’s groups, meet five bold women driving real change in
their communities, countries, and around the world. Five disruptors taking risks for bigger
gains for women’s human rights. What are your ideas for bigger gains for gender equality?
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What are women’s human rights?
Women’s rights are the fundamental human rights that were enshrined by the United Nations
for every human being on the planet nearly 70 years ago. These rights include the right to
live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; to be educated; to own property; to vote;
and to earn a fair and equal wage.

3. Goals:
● Provide women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent
work.
● Representation in political and economic decision-making.

4. What meant by women abuse?
Woman abuse is any use of psychological, physical or sexual force, actual or
threatened, in an intimate relationship. Intimate relationships include a current or
former spouse, and an intimate, or dating partner. Violence is used to intimidate,
humiliate or frighten victims, or to make them feel powerless.

5. Women trafficking
Trafficking in persons is an increasing problem that involves both sexual
exploitation and labor exploitation of its victims. Trafficking affects all regions and
the majority of countries in the world. Both men and women may be victims of
trafficking, but the primary victims worldwide are women and girls, the majority of
whom are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

6. Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she
became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a
death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she
was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on
the importance of education. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
In 2014, she was nominated again and won, becoming the youngest person to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize.