I've been doing a lot of work on female rights, especially adolescent rights. I've been to a lot of schools where the UNICEF had set up villages in India, and it's an eye-opening experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.
The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.
You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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