NO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WEEK

This second session will focus on solutions, providing examples of best practices to encourage students to find inspiring policies and initiatives and share them with the class.

The first session will present the main challenges of gender equality from an economic, educational and innovation perspective. We will provide, through group discussion, answers to questions such as: what is the purpose of gender policies, or why are they necessary today?

• IN PERSON
• ONLINE

How to encourage the real involvement of men in the change towards more gender equality, what are the obstacles to their commitment, what solutions can be implemented from the company?

INVITATION
Are you wondering how we can advance in gender equality issues? Would you like to take away something a little different?
The key lies in involving all of us. This is not a women's issue. And therefore, it is urgent and important to understand how to proactively engage men.
LightUP is about igniting what unites us and extinguishing the differences. That is why Isabelle Auroux and Ritxar Bacete are working together to change our look and above all, to establish a real bridge where Men and Women walk hand in hand.

PREPARATION
To attend our workshop, we propose you to prepare the following: what obstacles have you experienced or do you experience from time to time in terms of gender equality? Now that you have some distance and you can analyze it, what explanation would you give to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cI6kVm4bA4
Around the world, girls face barriers to education that boys do not. But educating girls can break
cycles of poverty in just one generation.
GIRL RISING | EDUCATE GIRLS. CHANGE THE WORLD.
1. In July of 2016, UNESCO reported that there are 130.3 million girls out of school worldwide, a much higher number than previously reported.* The breakdown by age is: 32.1 million girls of primary school age (about 6 to 11 years), 29.1 million of lower secondary (about 12 to 14 years old), 69.1 million of upper secondary (about 15 to 17 years old).
(UNESCO, 2016)
2. Women make up nearly two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults. (UNESCO, 2016)
3. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of girls start primary school but only 8% finish secondary school. (Brookings, 2016)
4. Just 39% of rural girls attend secondary school. (UN Women)
5. Girls who complete secondary school are up to 6x less likely to marry as children. (USAID, 2015)
6. Each extra year of secondary school can help a girl increase their future earnings by 10-20% (USAID, 2015) and some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys. (CARE, 2016)
7. The total number of girls married in childhood is now estimated at 12 million a year. The new figures point to an accumulated global reduction of 25 million fewer marriages than would have been anticipated under global levels 10 years ago. (UNICEF, 2018)
8. Globally, about one third of women aged 20 to 24 were child brides. (UNICEF, 2016)
9. With each additional year of a mother’s education, the probability of infant mortality drops by 5%-10%. (USAID, 2015)
10. Every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence (UNICEF, 2014)

*This marks the first-ever estimate to include school-aged children ages 15-17 and this staggering statistic points to
many more girls being out of school than when we first premiered the Girl Rising film in 2013.
*This document has last been updated in March 2018, and there may be differences between what is listed here and
in the film as these stats are changing all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cI6kVm4bA4
Around the world, girls face barriers to education that boys do not. But educating girls can break
cycles of poverty in just one generation.
GIRL RISING | EDUCATE GIRLS. CHANGE THE WORLD.
1. In July of 2016, UNESCO reported that there are 130.3 million girls out of school worldwide, a much higher number than previously reported.* The breakdown by age is: 32.1 million girls of primary school age (about 6 to 11 years), 29.1 million of lower secondary (about 12 to 14 years old), 69.1 million of upper secondary (about 15 to 17 years old).
(UNESCO, 2016)
2. Women make up nearly two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults. (UNESCO, 2016)
3. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of girls start primary school but only 8% finish secondary school. (Brookings, 2016)
4. Just 39% of rural girls attend secondary school. (UN Women)
5. Girls who complete secondary school are up to 6x less likely to marry as children. (USAID, 2015)
6. Each extra year of secondary school can help a girl increase their future earnings by 10-20% (USAID, 2015) and some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys. (CARE, 2016)
7. The total number of girls married in childhood is now estimated at 12 million a year. The new figures point to an accumulated global reduction of 25 million fewer marriages than would have been anticipated under global levels 10 years ago. (UNICEF, 2018)
8. Globally, about one third of women aged 20 to 24 were child brides. (UNICEF, 2016)
9. With each additional year of a mother’s education, the probability of infant mortality drops by 5%-10%. (USAID, 2015)
10. Every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence (UNICEF, 2014)

*This marks the first-ever estimate to include school-aged children ages 15-17 and this staggering statistic points to
many more girls being out of school than when we first premiered the Girl Rising film in 2013.
*This document has last been updated in March 2018, and there may be differences between what is listed here and
in the film as these stats are changing all the time.