It's Our Time

Every major political party agrees that improving gender equality is an important outcome of our aid and development programs, but we can’t get there if we continue to ignore adolescent girls.

In their adolescent years, boys and girls are pushed down very different paths. Girls face additional barriers to finishing school and choosing when they marry and have children – two elements that play a crucial role in gender equality later in life.

Australia’s current policy fails to give these crucial years the focus and funding they deserve.

We’re asking Australia’s leaders to create a targeted Action ...

Every major political party agrees that improving gender equality is an important outcome of our aid and development programs, but we can’t get there if we continue to ignore adolescent girls.

In their adolescent years, boys and girls are pushed down very different paths. Girls face additional barriers to finishing school and choosing when they marry and have children – two elements that play a crucial role in gender equality later in life.

Australia’s current policy fails to give these crucial years the focus and funding they deserve.

We’re asking Australia’s leaders to create a targeted Action Plan to ensure girls around the world have better access to high school education and training, stay healthy, safe and free from violence, and have opportunities to be leaders.

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Gender equality must include girls

Ask our foreign policy leaders to make girls a priority. It might sound like a small step towards creating gender equality but it’s a crucial one. It means we’ll be able to hold the government to account on their commitments to girls, no matter who wins the Federal Election.

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Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Senator Richard Di Natale, Leader of the Australian Greens

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Dear Australian foreign policy leaders,

As a supporter of gender equality for women and girls, I’m asking you to commit to empowering and educating our next generation of female leaders, workers and mothers.

A new report from Plan International Australia, It’s Our Time – Achieving gender equality for adolescent girls through our aid program, has found that for Australia’s commitment to gender equality to have an enduring impact, we need a more strategic focus on adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 in our foreign policy, aid and development.

This is an opportunity for Australia to champion the rights of girls globally and address what is currently a blind spot in its commitment to achieving gender equality through aid and development.

I’m writing to ask you to include girls in your party’s foreign policy, aid and development platforms by committing to develop a stand alone adolescent girls’ action plan with key priorities and a clear implementation plan for empowering girls aged 10 to 19.

Will you commit to achieving gender equality for adolescent girls in your aid and development policy platforms?

It’s up to all of us to stand alongside our next generation of women and support them to thrive.

I look forward to hearing from you about how your party will ensure Australia’s contribution to gender equality around the world is effective and enduring.

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