Kathy Calvin, President and CEO of the UN Foundation, called attention to the issue of the rights of women and girls in an address on Wednesday at the National Press Club
in Washington, DC.
PBS News Hour ran this excellent report last night about the great work that our friends at the Girl Up campaign are doing to improve the lives of young women here in the United States and around the world.
The British actor and model Nigel Barker writes an essay for the UN Foundation's Girl Up campaign that discusses weddings less picture perfect than William and Kate's nuptials today.
Here is hoping that in the few days leading up to Friday's royal nuptials the media gives just a tiny fraction of its attention to the kinds of weddings that are not so royal, elegant--or even legal.
