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>> coming up some hillary and chelsea clinton with a spade in the open session of the clinton global initiative conference in new york city. joining them were activists from around the world including actress ashley judd to discuss women and girls writes, climate change, and access to aids and hiv treatments. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> when whatever secures oldg

too young to stay at home alone, i would take a bus everyday after school to my aunts. i wanted to play outside but instead i do listen to life stories of everyday people that came into my aunt daisies beauty salon, the village, in little rock, arkansas. my aunt daisy was hard-working and compassionate. her salon, though small, was illuminating. my childhood was triggering an overwhelming at times. but is also beautiful. those days been in her salon showed me that people can make a difference in the life of others, just by a simple gesture, and a decent conversation. and it made me realize how a single moment seated in a salon or a barber chair has the power to create lasting impact or even a movement. >> so if i ask you to close your

eyes and think of africa, i bet most of you would see giraffes or probably kids barefoot running in the dust. the cliché of africa is really a succession of tragedy of academics but the reality that those challenges are tremendous. as of today, 1.3 billion africans representing soon 25% of our population, and in 2001, one-third. africa is also the most, the youngest continent with a median age of 20, 60% below 25, and all aspiring to have a decent life. africans are still poor mostly, poor access to clean water, energy, transportation, food security, and above all, the biggest tragedy is poor access

to education. that is not conclusive of the large bottom of the pyramid. to give you an example, africa needs 100 times more universities to be able to really answer to the needs, and admitted often inefficient policies that were not able to address these issues so far. >> over the years, therapy and personal development has help me to work through some traumatic experiences in my childhood. i recognize the same pain and needing for coping skills that so many other marginalized black men and boys, which led me to great the confess project of america. in 2016, to provide others with mental health strategies and coping skills to have them move past her own pill. paint. suicide is a third leading cause of death for black men between the ages of 18-24 and only 4% of clinicians in the mental health field are people of color.

spending time with my aunt daisy is where social innovation and the journey of impact met me as it speaks to the work that the confess project of america now does in over 52 cities and 30 states. training barbers and stylist to be mental health advocates. in 2022 the confess project made a commitment to action to increase mental health access and decreased the stigma of mental health by meeting people where they already are, in barbershops. since then in partnership with the department of behavioral health in georgia we've expanded our training to women to train 500 beauty stylists. 50% of the barbers and stylus have gone through the training are better informed about mental health than they were before. because of the support of cgi we have expanded our recent partnership with the walmart foundation addressing juvenile justice strategy in arkansas.

we have also formed a partnership with truest bank to help expand our curriculum across the southeast in 20 barber schools. i am proud to share with you that the confess project of america is now reaching 3.8 million people annually through our training of network of barbers and hairstylists. [applause] >> now, you may think that there is no straightforward solution. we believe that education is the one. africa does not have the luxury to take its time and build universities the same traditional way in the western countries, so it will have to leapfrog to advanced technology and innovation and alternative education. seeing this, , we started in 20, osd which a a not-for-profit supporting gun out of her nose

in africa. we started in tunisia and together with columbia university we felt the program that targeted 100 youth, trained every year, mentored them offer them an international exposure, and we scaled the model slowly through the whole country targeting all university with hundreds of faculty that were all trained to help us in our mission. in seven years we supported 2000 students, around 400 youth led startups using technology to solve global issues. and guess what? after seven years, 98% of our entrepreneurs are unemployed, whether they have their own venture or working for other companies, which is a remarkable outcome in a country where 30% of graduates are employed only. today i stand before you to announce the overseas commitment to expand the model across africa we tried it in morocco

and in cynical and it worked. we're trying to do that at scale, this initiative has at the first allies including columbia university but also in mikey said let's join, and we added also many countries, the u.s. embassy, the german government, the european union, eu, france, digital africa, african investment, one of the first in ai built in africa. the commitment to action will empower communities to change the narrative of the continent and showcase the power of talent that exists in our youth. >> it is no surprise that any of us here today, it's not always easy. there are days when it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. over the last year we face changes in funding and organizational shifts, but last

year we made a commitment to a 300 barbers and stylists learn mental health strategies to support their clients, their families and their community members. and with the sport of this community we will see our commitment to action to create a culture of mental health for communities of color. at times when i start to lose hope, i remember the compassion that i felt as a young child with my aunt daisy. we must all remain compassionate and resilient. we have to keep going. [applause] >> so i come all the way from tunisia trip a little country in north africa that has flowers to disrupt all wishing. >> some of you knows as the creators of the spring but in reality we want to create the entrepreneurship and innovation that is built in africa. tunisia offered its name -- and

as of today i am very humbled to use my voice to make the case of our youth. i never thought one day his holiness would open the door to me my friend lorenzo. [laughing] i think we can retire, lorenzo. [laughing] but i also never thought that we could transform a national competition into an african ecosystem, recognized globally connected, and changing the narrative of africa with europe, the u.s., because africa is the future. we refuse to believe that there is no solution. there is no curse. there just needs to be a shift in the paradigm. there needs to be new solutions, and we are witnessing this shift. we are all in this a journey together because it's our future, and we will make sure

that this reality across the continent happens, and until then we will keep, all keep going. enjoy your day. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i could not be happier that i had a chance today to see firsthand what is happening here at the foundation for recovery. i just saw a room packed with volunteers who are putting together recovery kits. i just want to come and see all of you think everyone of you and tell you how meaningful this work is. thank you very, very much. >> since 2019 we have distributed and received over 20,000 life-saving prevention kits which is been a collaborative effort with the clinton foundation that action will provide an reverse preventable opioid overdose. >> so happy to meet you.

>> three in four people who struggle with addiction to eventually recover, but they can't recover if we ignore them, deny resources for them, think prison is the answer instead of recovery is the answer. and so we've got work to do. >> thank you all for all the work you are doing. >> not just saving lives, you are truly the glue that is keeping the civilization together. by caring, by loving. and the clinton global initiative i i can't think ofa better organization that includes and reminds us that we have to help each other. >> it is all about separating us from the differences that divide us and finding common ground, because when we work together, guess what? we get really great things done. >> please welcome president bill clinton and ziv aviram.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like that last section. and i hope you did. i think of all the challenges we face. it is likely that none requires more collective action than seriously addressing climate change. every day we have new evidence of the new reality we already live in. the wildfires are more deadly and more rapidly moving. the floods are deeper, , the droughts are longer, the hurricanes and typhoons more severe. record air and ocean temperatures, species die offs, and with every new headline, the

reminder that the longer we fail to act, the more severe the consequences will be. things will get worse, and they in turn will exacerbate our other political challenges, including poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease and, of course, armed conflict. but there's a flip side here. we know that if we work together, whenever we do it seriously, deliberately and over an extended period of time, things get better. we can lift up the human community. we can improve the human condition, and we know that there's something for everybody to do, particularly in this space.

entrepreneurs and innovators all around the world have already proven that there are significant responses to climate change, which will make things better, , lower future risks, ad improve outcomes. today, i am pleased to introduce one of them. ziv aviram is an israeli who i last saw in morocco. he has spent a lot of time and effort to unlock the entrepreneurial skills of people in north africa and the middle east, and to reach across the divides to prove that a common future can be built. now, i'll let him explain it, but he decided on his own. that's how we found him and how

we begin to work together. and he decided on his own death the rest of us had not done enough about climate change. which was painfully self-eviden self-evident, though a lot of people say that, and never do anything about it. so i would like to introduce ziv aviram. [applause] >> president clinton, distinguished guests, the morning. thank you, mr. president or the warm words. what an honor to stand here with you on this prominent stage. we worked very hard to reach at this moment of the announcement, and i'm eager to see the results of our initiative.

ladies and gentlemen, the world is a global theater. yet, one voice has orchestrated a unique and significant forum focusing on acting for the better. that voice belongs to you, president clinton. thanks to your leadership and commitment, we all stand here today ready to lend a united hand and address one of the most critical challenges of our time, climate change. our planet is crying out for help. devastating wildfires, raging canada. how i faced the deadliest blaze in a century. distractive hurricanes and typhoons are smashing against our coastlines.

crippling droughts are consuming africa, and unprecedented heat waves are striking europe and north america. disastrous events are alarming signs of a new normal that we cannot and should not accept. throughout my career, i was privileged to build companies that harness harnessed o empower people. inspired by you, resident clinton. now, i inspired to expend that and harvest technologies to help our planet. following long and extensive preparations, today we proudly announce i joined climate tech fund aye breach -- echo bridge.

[applause] >> echo bridge represents opportunity to create a future in which economic growth and environmental prosperity are two sides of the same coin. the ecobridge fund will invest in a wide range of cutting edge technologies that will shape its sustainable future for our children. it teaches us that humanity has the resilience to conquer great challenges, beat pandemics, devastating wars, or tyranny. president clinton, we are both full self committed to do everything in our power and leave no stone unturned until we find the most innovative ideas that will hopefully rebalance

our world. i call upon you, fellow business leaders, join us. join us and together we will tackle the climate crisis and turn it into a triumph. [applause] let's ensure a better tomorrow for us and for all future generations. after all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. we borrow it from our children. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> please welcome doctor chelsea clinton. ♪ ♪ ♪

[applause] >> good morning, everyone. i i promise i did not quite know that you of the blue to match, so awkwardly and meticulously. [laughing] i am incredibly grateful for our next conversation, because we are coming together a moment where there is both enormous reason for optimism about the fight against hiv and aids, and also deeply concerning and less than encouraging news in the ongoing effort to end aids. the good news stems from a recent report from unaids that we can in new hiv infections and the public health emergency that has been aids for more than three decades, if we stay the course, by 2030. [applause]

this is only possible as a promise because of the extraordinary work of activists, of advocates, of scientists, of grassroots organizers and doctors and nurses and midwives, many of you here in this room over the many decades of hiv and aids. it is particularly meaningful to us here at the clinton foundation to be on this precipice, because the origin of the foundation really began in 2002 when my father and nelson mandela at the barcelona aids conference that you decided to do something about the deep inequity that existed and access to hiv treatment. people here in the united states were more likely to have access, although still far few to did, but people living in south africa and in much of the global

south had no effective access to the medicines that were able to turn aids into a chronic illness because the cost of treating a person per year, more than 20 years ago, was $10,000. $10,000. and so my father launched the clinton hiv/aids initiative, now china, to turn what had been a high-priced low-volume market into high-volume low price market. and today the average cost of treating a a person per year n the global south is less than $60. [applause] so i am incredibly proud of this work, and proud that my father and the many thousands of extraordinary people who have worked at chi and continue to work at chi kind of taken that as only a reason to keep going to do more. so chi has negotiate more than 140 different commodities, arrangements, enabling earlier detection, treatment, and when

possible, vaccinations against a number of the health origins that still take far too many lives and far too many people around the world. and we know that while the end of aids being insight is an incredible testament to the work of everyone over the last 30 plus 30 plus years to get us at this point, as we earlier in the conversation about protecting hiv/aids writes, we cannot take your foot off the pedal and we could not mistake progress for mistake, and we could not take for granted that everyone will recognize the importance of this fight for justice, equity, and health. because while certainly we are very proud and chi for all the work that we've been able to be part of, to pioneer, to stand behind, to learn from, we know that much of our work as much of the work of any of us in this room who have been engaged in

this fight has been made possible by the work of the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis, malaria, by the unaids, by the world health organization, by unicef, many of those have been at the large global multilateral institutions, , many of whom intermec received support from pepfar of u.s. president's emergency for aids relief that president bush launched in 2003. it is the -- [applause] -- single largest effort ever undertaken against a single disease in history. and it is one that were much of it to decade existence has received even recently strong bipartisan support here in the united states. and yet today, re-authorization for pepfar is that something that we can take for granted. and without the continued support of the united states government and effectively of

citizens here in the united states, we will not be able to turn aids into part of our history and and of such stia stranglehold of our present, and a shadow for our future. so while the unaids report suggests the date is robust and strong and that we can in aids as a public health crisis and in new hiv infections by 2030, that is only possible if we sustain political will and funding and focus it on where the virus continues to spread most rapidly. at the moment that is among women and children. a staggering 84,000 kids thousand kids around the world still die from aids every year. and so for those of us who care about children, for those of us who care about equity, for those of us who care about justice, for those who care about public

health, we have to care about fight for pepfar reauthorization. and yet we know that still only one critical step in reaching the milestone that unaids tells us is possible, and we know once we reach that milestone we have to continue to provide support so that everyone living with hiv and aids is able to live lives full of dignity, promise, purpose, and hopefully then die of something else at 100. because if 100 is the milestone that we are also marching toward, and you and who lives with hiv and aids deserves to reach that milestone, too. so i just hope that if you didn't know what pepfar was three minutes ago, you do now. i hope that even if you think aids isn't your issue and kids is, you now care about this. hope that at least some of you, and all of the americans and the term, make sure that your elected representatives know why this is important to you, and why it is clearly so evidently i

hope now important to all of us. and so with that it is my incredible honor to introduce someone who knows quite a bit about the effort to put aids in the rearview mirror, winnie byanyima, who is of the executive director of unaids and has dedicated her life to helping to advance issues that relate to women and children's rights, health, safety, equity and equality for all of us. she is someone i've long admired and i am quite giddy that he get to monopolize the next 60 minutes of her time to learn from her about what she thinks all of us need to know about the fight to end aids as a relates to both the global health crisis anything of the decals that all care about. please join in giving winning a very, very warm welcome to the stage. [applause] >> thank you so much.

>> so winnie thank you so much for being here, and i hope that we could start with you kind of sharing with the audience kind of why there is optimism from unaids perspective, kind of what is it that you see kind in the data that compels you to put a a stake in the ground to say if we stay the course, we can in new hiv infections by 2030. >> iq, chelsea and thank you for inviting me here to be with you. thank the clinton global initiative for making this an important issue. because today there's so many crises in the world that it is dropping off the agenda. that there are three reasons one shouldn't. one, it's because aids is not

over. the fight is not over. you focus the ship spokes will about it. we got 30 million people achievement globally living healthy lives but we got another 9 million people living with hiv who are not on treatment. we must reach them. aids is not over. but secondly because we know how to end aids. we know we have a clear means of how to do it, even though there's no cure and no vaccine. we've got tools in between to get everyone, first to prevent infections, the infection, and to get everyone treatment if they are. so we have the means but we lack the will. so the third reason why we must get this alive on the agenda is that it's a smart investment to fight hiv/aids. when you fight hiv/aids, , the thing to do to fight hiv/aids

also contribute to achieving the other sustainable development goals. secondly, fighting hiv/aids is prevention. when you are preventing hiv infection, you're also preventing those same things prevent other pandemics, and give capacity to be prepared for any future ones. so it's a smart investment. these things are being discussed here at unga are but often disconnect of hiv so those are the reasons so then we come a long way and we did know how to do it. like i said, like you said, the world came together at the height of this disease. the world came together, agreed to fight together, made commitments and clear targets that are renewed every five

years. heads of state come here every five years and make a new declaration, set new targets, and work together globally. leaders roles like your father, like president bush, and after that global consensus, came with this pepfar contribution, injecting financing, capacities in the developing world where it was weaker and whether burton was high. so pepfar came, , global fund game, and then people themselves font, , font, font and again leaders rose and crisis can get and everyone could have this life-saving pill. so we need to repeat those successes. and thank you for bringing us here to do that, to remind people that 30 30 years ago e world came together, 40 years ago, and that now we've achieved

so much. we've got 30 million people living good lives here we have another 9 million to are dying,n who were dying, because they got between them and adults in reaching the treatment. so why? we can't reach them. we need to reach them. so the job is not done. >> winnie, reflecting, listening to you, how much of a challenge do you think kind of the success of the last kind of 40 years when the world for us we can together the first international aids conference kind of set a set of goals, kind of more countries kind of more science, more activists kind of came to every conference, you know, we had the birth of the global fund, kind of pepfar. so that so many people may not be as close to this as you or i think so much as happened, it's now time to focus on something

else. wow, 30 million people are on treatment instead of what i think you and i believe, well then, we had to get the 9 million more people on treatment. we have to prevent every kind of new infection, whether mother to child, through sexual transmission, like everyone deserves to be able to have the tools to keep themselves safe and healthy. other people may focus will look, 30 million people in treatment, does that mean we can do less? howdy respond to that? >> every life counts. and when you look at who is not getting what they need to protect themselves or to get on treatment and live well, it's a sad story. these 9 million people are not, 9 million you to get on treatment, but there's also 1.3 million people newly infected every year as well. so when you look at who is at

risk and who is not on treatment, it's a sad story about who we are as a world and who we value. because, indeed, the majority of new infections in the world today are women and girls in africa. poor countries, poor women and girls. the majority of people who are the group that is also most at risk and doesn't get access to treatment are lgbtq people, transgender women, gay men, and often those in the categories of poor as well, so a combination of access, inequality, poverty, race, gender, even disability works against people to put them at more risk, that only to get infected but to also less opportunity to get what they

need to get on treatment. so it's a disease of injustice. it is not -- yeah, it is injustice, , it is inequality tt drives this. and we know that when you start to close the gap on rights, when you interactively has equal rights, when you allow civil society, communities to engage, to lead, when you can use the data sharply to target who needs prevention and care needs treatment, you start to see progress. but all lives matter. we can't say we've done 30 million, less than 9 million die. we cannot say that. all lives matter. and children, lgbtq people, girls and women especially are most at risk. we are saving them.

>> special we are failing them. >> yet we are more likely to reach more people in more places if we have both pepfar reauthorization and also continue global commitment and leadership from a lot of the people who are crosstown at unga here someone to kind of, winnie, as you can kind of so deeply in this work what you have found kind of our the arguments at work to help those that we need on our side to keep going. >> yet. well, first i identify five key elements of making progress, how we have gotten here. one is the strong political leadership you were mentioning, the people across on the east side. we have to mobilize them. from the national level to the global level. we need strong political

leadership. it's failing now. we are in a world where the geopolitics have gone crazy, and it's even hard to get leaders to stay committed to what they committed long ago. so building that trust and political leadership is key here. we need to follow the science, as i said, to address the real epidemic in each country, not the epidemic they want to think they have, but to follow the science, the evidence, to close the inequality for those people most at risk. in africa, women and girls. gay men and transgender women particularly. we have to let communities lead. that is key. communities must lead. because hiv has transformed local health in this way, by

communities coming in gay groups, women's groups, serving themselves. they serve themselves individually. they reach everyone. they reach those would never be reached. so letting communities lead but we are seeing civic space shrinking, so we have to fight for that. and fifth, financing, financing is waning. it's a dropping, it's because of geopolitical tensions. it's dropping because of other factors it also have to be financed, but we have to keep the financing that has been there. so what do we say to them? we say, you're almost there. look, today we have five countries with the highest burden who have already hit the target for 2025, botswana, a small country called this one

teeny. i wonder whether you know it? it's a little island in the middle of south africa but has hit the target its rwanda, it's tanzania botswana. these are countries that have already met the midway target of 2025 took another 16 are almost there. so we are close. why drop the ball when you are winning? so this is the argument i want to give them and that when you do it, also solve other problems. but we have real challenges, chelsea. this pushback on human rights is terrible. i come from uganda i think you've heard the story there. that the was a horrible that was enacted, the homosexuality act. but look, what inspires me? i was her last week and activists, women and men living with hiv, gay men, have come together, gone to the car and

said, okay, you've made that law. we hate it. it's against our lives, but can we help you to explain to security officials, to health officials, to minimize the harm? can you imagine, they are working with the minister in charge of security desensitize police, soldiers about how not to do more harm. this is, for me, tells you that we must not give up. [applause] if they are fighting, don't give up. [applause] >> winnie, we seek out so much of what has made the purpose of the last particularly couple decades against hiv and aids possible under attack, which you mentioned about kind of new laws

in places, including in this country. the kind of efforts to kind retrench funding, ongoing deep structural vulnerability of girls and women and men's of the lgbtq+ community around the world, and yet we also do have moments i think of compelling optimism. the activists that you met last week in uganda, many of the people here in this room, you yourself, who are kind of admonitions to keep going. i do wonder if it are closing couple of minutes kind of you could share any reflections you have from your time at unaids that could be relevant to people who hopefully, you know, care about this, that their central kind of compulsion is climate change or girls writes broadly, or education, kind of what you think you have learned that could be relevant to anyone as a

think about the need to keep going? >> before i get there let me inject myself in your politics. >> please. and jack conway winnie. you are always welcome. >> yes. i want to say to american congressmen and women and senators, please authorize pepfar. we authorize pepfar. [applause] we need it. we needed we are here because of the leadership of america, of the generosity of americans, people putting this into the response. look, the high budget countries, in many of them come up to 95% of the funding for this, putting people on treatment and

prevention, is paid for by this program. and these are countries today that are so highly indebted, they are paying towards servicing their debt just the interest on their debt, four, five times as much as they are putting in their own health system. so this is not the time to -- this is the time for the leadership in america to continue doing what it has done right, and continue supporting countries to keep their people alive. it is so important. it's been a great part of the success story. 25 million people on treatment today have been supported by the pepfar program. we need it. now, you say, your question was, so i am hopeful. i am hopeful that pepfar will be

reauthorized because people i know are alive today because the support isn't there. and more is needed today than ever before. your question was -- i've forgotten it. >> i think maybe you answered it, right? the singular, unrelenting focus and to inject yourself in any bill or conversation where you need to be to ensure that you can meet your objectives. >> exactly. >> that's really ultimately good for all of us because the return on investment for americans on pepfar has been extraordinary. more than 25 many people people on treatment. what is happened with kind of the number of kids who been able to go to school, parents were able to work, sustainable agricultural practices that can be put into motion. again, anything that have brought you into this room is related to pepfar reauthorization. so at the risk of belaboring, please come to the americas, call your representatives and

pleas to all of you give winnie a huge amount of gratitude and appreciation for her time with us. [applause] >> if there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights, once and for all. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we need a generation to ensure that whenever silenced again. >> how long will it take until you are allowed back in schools?

>> every time someone is walking through the stores, that's an awakening. >> unleash the potential of women. >> and that's how you will stimulate your economy. >> we are joined by so many people making remarkable commitments with continued effort all the world's girls one day will be free. >> we are here and we can't and we are going to fight for what we care about in tell you pay for it. >> so as we stand, or centcom

here today, we are witnessing a dangerous, unmistakable global backsliding on the right of women and girls. from the ban on secondary education for girls in afghanistan come to the abortion bans here in the united states. and it cannot be our charge to ourselves to only stop our rights from being rolled back. we certainly need to reclaim and protect those rights. we also need to accelerate progress and secure that as well. empowering women and girls has been at the core of cgi from the very beginning. probably not surprising, given to my mom is. and also because climate resilience is a women and girls issue. building an inclusive economy is a women's issue. and certainly health equity, as we just heard, is a women's

issue. and i think we can all recognize this is not an ordinary moment, and so we here at cgi felt that we needed to be doing even more than we already have been, particularly when we read the recent u.n. report that said it will take 300 years of current trends to achieve gender equity. 300 years. and so we asked ourselves, what would it take to cut that in half? or possibly to even achieve full gender equity, and if not in my lifetime, at least in a lifetime of my daughter and my son. as we are formalizing a a newe focus for cgi, a fourth pillar aimed specifically and ambitiously at what my mother has always called the unfinished business of the 21st century, achieving full equality and equity for all women and all

girls, once and for all. [applause] >> and we certainly hope that all of you here in this room, or watching us online, will engage in this work. and we know that we have to draw on the expertise of members of our cgi community today, at those who we hope will become part of our cgi community. of truly anyone who is working at the intersection of all of the issues and challenges and opportunities that shape the lives of women and girls around the world. and so since we like to start with listening and learning, it is my honor to introduce you to some of the women who have long been on the front lines of the fight for gender equality and equity, who have persisted in the face of extraordinary

challenges, and who have always kept going, and you are calling on all of us to keep going with them. so please join me in welcoming my friend, reshma saujani. [applause] >> we talk a lot about elegant on ideas, crazy gadgets that are going to become the next iphone, must has for a life on mars, but what if i told you that i had a hundred million dollar idea, a simple idea, one that would lift up our economies and lift millions of families out of poverty? i'm talking of course about investing in working moms. i founded my nonprofit moms first at the height of the pandemic when women were being

pushed out of the workforce in droves, and replacing their paid work with unpaid care. three years later things haven't gotten better. america is still the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee paid leave. one in four months come back to work two weeks after having a baby. we invest less in childcare and any other wealthy nation. 40% of families go into debt because of the cost of childcare. this means that every day parents, especially moms, are forced to make them possible choices between feeding their children, and funding daycare. between teams to their careers and tending to the families. enough is enough. to finish the fight for gender equality we have to finish the fight for moms.

we are done performing a high wire balancing act with no safety net. we are done being that safety net. it's time to invest in policies that are going to help moms not survive, but thrive. paid leave, affordable childcare, equal pay. i promise, this billion dollar idea will pay dividends. [applause] >> and now i would like to introduce mean and helena gualinga to the stage. [applause] -- nina. >> thank you so much. growing up in the amazon rain forest, i saw my mother, my

grandmother, and the women in my community take care of the children, teaching as our language, our songs that hold vital information about the rain forest. i also saw been kicked out oil companies and militaries from our lands. i saw them lead and guide the younger women and men to become leaders. i have, alongside our elders, fought for the protection of our home successfully. >> women across the world face similar challenges where the survive, heal, and lead our solutions and healing of our communities and land. indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change also facing the challenges for just being born a girl. yet, , we are also the ones with the most knowledge and experience in protecting the land. about 1% of all climate

philanthropy goes towards indigenous people. we would estimate that from that perhaps ten to 30% goes towards indigenous women. this is not enough. >> in 2020, 80% of our community was destroyed by massive floods caused by climate change. the next day we had to wake up and build it up from scratch. if we want to address climate change, we need to support indigenous women. with the right resources and support, indigenous women can protect and restore rivers, rescue seeds of important plants, we forest deforested areas, and heal our communities from the colonial violence that we have faced. [applause] >> where we come from, indigenous people protect the vast majority of pristine rainforests, and it's estimated

that worldwide 82% of the entire world biodiversity is on indigenous land. no one is better experienced to do this work that indigenous people. and particularly indigenous women who have the experience, the skills and the love for our people and our land. we are building a world -- [applause] we are building a world where the amazon can finally begin to recover and thrive, for our children, but also for your children. yet, we never get a real seat at the table. and we cannot do this alone. the world needs to invest in the expertise of indigenous women, and that means hitting us the right space, time, and the resources that we need. thank you.

[applause] >> work and now please join in getting a warm welcome to ashley judd. [applause] >> good morning here i stand here today in solidarity, power and strength as one of hundreds of minutes of window survived male sexual violence. a man molested before the first time that i remember when i was seven years old, but it was not the last time. i severed due to a culture of demand and time but and didn't get justice because of impunity. like so many of the women my career is very different today because of workplace sexual harassment and all around the world, in schools and in brothels, in markets and in huts, such a violence is ubiquitous, and it is pervasive. i'm also someone who over the past 18 years of seeing the incredible progress happens when

this cgi community comes together, to take action for progress. my efforts join yours and millions around the world, and we hustle to create a more equitable, just, and fair committee for girls, women and the lgbtqia+ committee of people with disabilities. for peace and security to manifest at every level in our personal relationships, our politics and our economies we must be free from gender-based harm that is subtle and covert casual and structural and i'm so glad to be here in committee with you today to declare once and for all, that male sexual violence is the up with which we will not put. thank you. [applause] >> and now i would like to invite my very dear friend didi bertrand farmer to the stage.

[applause] >> hello, everyone. i have been an effort to see and the caribbean for the last 27 years, serving with many leading institutions, including partners in health, global institute. more than ever we need comprehensive and integrated healthcare and social protection for our innocent girls and young women. today, i choose to bring attention to the problematic of teenage pregnancy and mental health. quickly notice, globally today there are about 880 million

innocent girls and young women aged 15-24. that's 12% of the world's population. and most of them live in the low and middle income countries. of them, 120 million are not in traditional education, nor in traditional training. each year, 21 million got pregnant, , and 12 million give birth. these young women do not just bear the brunt of maternal mortality, hiv infection, violence, depression and exciting, but poverty, gender discrimination, unemployment, political instability, natural disasters and migration, to name a few. ..

>> on way the world future depends. and for social structures and systems to better serve the most marginalized ones and left no one behind.

[applause] >> and now as it's always my honor, i'd like all of you to warmly welcome someone i've had the enormous privilege of quite literally looking up to my whole life until i became taller than her. please join me in welcoming one of the heroes i get to call my mom. hillary rodham clinton. [applause]. >> i love you. >> oh, thank you. thank you. thank you all. thank you. well, thank you, chelsea. you're also an inspiration to

me and to all here on the stage and all of you and so many literally millions around the world who share our commitment to make gender equality a reality. now, we know well that no one person can do this alone. a theme of our plenary this morning, but the good news is we don't have to. every single person in this room is an ally in the fight for the rights of women and girls. as chelsea said, when we come together to forge partnerships and open new path ways to progress, we can do extraordinary things. now, we saw that 30 years ago when delegates from around the world came to beijing to shine a spotlight on the status of women and girls, and from that conference, we spoke to the

world with one voice, a voice that said very clearly, women's rights are human rights and that moving toward the fulfillment of those rights is an urgent call. since then generations of leaders and activists and truly people from every walk of life, especially our truth tellers who you've heard from now, have answered that call, including the women that we heard from who represent the voices of so many others. but let's be honest, the work is far from done. so it is time to close the wage gap once and for all. [applause]

>> it is time to expand access to reproductive health care, including safe abortion and quality maternity care once and for all. it is time to ensure that every girl everywhere can get the education she deserves to have once and for all. [applause] >> it is time to end gender-based violence and the excuses that keep it in the lives of our girls and women forever. [applause] >> it is time to tackle and end the climate crisis, which most disproportionately affect women and girls. [applause] >> yes, it's time to end

bigotry, racism, misogyny, all. ideologies that still stalk us, once and for all. and it is time, finally, to make it old news to say that women's rights are human rights. i mean, i'm very grateful i had the chance to say that. i didn't think i'd still be saying it. literally all over the world, day in and day out because i thought we would have not only made progress, which we have, which we would have kept building on that progress leading toward real equality. now, many of you know, there is an old saying that i particularly like. if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. none of us can do this work alone. we need your ideas, your

energy, your commitment. we need your commitments to action right here at cgi. we're excited by what we're doing to really formalize and integrate so much of our work into this fourth pillar on women and girls. so thank you for being here to be part of making this commitment real, for helping us to shape and inform this urgent effort, to bringing us your ideas about what you see as pressing needs. you know, women and girls here in this country and around the world face a lot of the same challenges. the same challenges that we have faced for a very long time, but we're also facing new challenges, aren't we, brought

about by climate change, new technology, new conflicts, refugee crisis, so much else. but we have never been more powerful or more committed. people ask me all the time in the face of everything going on in the world whether i remain optimistic and i always say, yes, i do. i'm sometimes quick to add, i am an optimist who worries a lot, but i'm worrying so that we can bring people together to get things done, not to throw up my hands or to wring them, but to roll up my sleeves. i think we're up to the task together and it's never been more urgent. so, let's get to work and let's keep going. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, i'm so happy to see you, my friend.

oh, so glad. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> in 2015, world vision and our partners made an audacious commitment to reach everyone everywhere we worked with clean water and help end the global water crisis. we are on our own track with this commitment. reaching one new person every10 seconds with clean water. we had a game changing idea, what if we brought one country forward and finished the job there in just five years.

we picked rwanda where one million people needed clean water in the places we worked. when we started, there was great need, and then each year, we reached more and more people until by 2023, all the districts turned green. we have finished the job. we've exceeded our commitment and reached more than one million people with clean water. we reached people like sarafina, who prayed for clean water.

, [world vision has finished the job in rwanda, and it's changing the country. clean water means life. >> very good together with the government we can actually make a difference and be more impactful. >> we believe that rwanda will be the first country in subsaharan africa where everyone has access to clean water. world vision is now focused on reaching 30 million more people with clean water by 2030, including finishing the job of ensuring clean water for everyone everywhere we work in zambia and honduras. we believe with everyone doing their part, we will solve the

global water crisis together. >> please welcome back secretary hillary rodham clinton and iwaywa. >> i am so excited to have this great privilege to talk with someone whom i admire so greatly. someone whose work i have followed and privileged to see in some of his installations and whose wife really does speak to the challenge to keep going. so, thank you. thank you for joining us and i want to dive right in because as i said, your life and work in many ways are great

examples, what it means to keep going, especially when the odds seem so difficult. like when you were imprisoned in china in 2011, which i remember well. can you share with us some of the ways that you've dealt with these moments of personal challenge? how do you find the energy, the resilience, the motivation to keep going? >> well-- >> yeah. >> well, first it's nice -- i remember-- >> we have to turn the volume up a little bit, i think, on the headset. >> after my release-- wait just one second. we might need a hand-held, everybody. yes. [applause] >> that should be on.

>> hello, thank you. much more comfortable. >> well, after my release, i realized the only leaders, international leaders speak out about to the government to -- i'm very grateful for that. [applause] >> so to open the-- to give your idea on to precisely to tell what's on the mind is important to society and for me to pattern this kind of difficulties, i'm always thinking given me the opportunity to challenge me to

getting into much deeper thinking and why i'm doing that. so that helps a lot. and so, once you formally believe in what you're doing, there's no fear. the fear always belonged to the other side. so, yeah, that's how i feel. >> that's so interesting because you know, we talk about how we want to support people who are literally on the front lines all of these great struggles of our time and that's one of the reasons that we thought it was important to have you here because that's where you've been for years now and going deep, thinking hard about what you believe and what you want to convey seems like an important lesson for all of us, but we are living in a more

fragmented world and you have spoken about that. you know, forces like social media and artificial intelligence have certainly provided benefits, but they've also served to divide us further. and your art seems to comment on this social fragmenttation. tell us what you're thinking about the world in which we are currently living and the one with artificial intelligence in which we are moving and how you think, and maybe help us think, how do we maintain our humanity? how do we maintain, as you say, the potential to be able to think our own thoughts, to make our own contributions? >> the world, it's like very fragmented and because no

longer depends on the foundations of a single moral foundation. so it's very shattered, the world. it's like a broken mirror. but that broken mirror still reflects reality and art or culture or humanity still helps us to fix us, because they cannot just depend on scientific development. of course, they have benefits by the department and development, but we are not, at the same time to take an effort for the humanity, freedom of speech and others, very crucial properties of human life or societies important quality, then it doesn't matter how fast

we develop, we're still living in society. there's no way humanity can be saved scientific development. >> i thought about an article that you wrote in the new york times, i think it was last year, about how you're thinking concerning china and what's happening in china today. you know, we're seeing a startling rise in authoritarianism globally and i really hope you listen to this statistic because it shocked me and i made sure it was double-checked, but 72% of the world's population right now, or 5.7 billion people live under authoritarian rule. now, here in the united states, we know we're grapple with this

question as well and it will be a central issue in our upcoming elections. you know, we know that free and open democratic societies are foundational requirements for advancing any of our social impact goals and initiatives. so i was struck in the article you wrote how you made it clear, the internet is not going to change china. there are forces at work inside your home country. so how are you thinking about this global rise in authoritarianism and the crackdowns and the consolidation of power, particularly in china? >> well, i think we have to recognize that democratic practice still a minority. we have to look at it historically and then we also have to look at ourselves,

examine our way of living. so this is very complicated issue and they talk about a competition or efficiency, then we realize china have much powerful ways to really become even stronger. china is not going to disappear, india or other nations. they all catch up. so we have to realize, democracy today in the west. what is wrong? what is wrong? why we can't provide, we often think it's better value, you

know, freedom of speech, independent judicial system and the power struggles in the party or for media. so, something must be wrong there. why we can't face a challenge because we have to accept reality, it's not just-- it's just not being positive. it's not just the reading. it's day-to-day reality. so, i think that that takes the philosophy thinking on the historic perspective. >> you know, it's interesting, because i know from your family history that your father, who

was also an artist, a poet, your family were affected by the cultural revolution. you came out of that and you came of age at a time when there was a lot of-- a lot more openness in china, a lot more opportunity for artists and others to express themselves. but you're right to ask the question, what is wrong with us? why to we, whether we are in the united states and buying into lies that have no basis in truth, fact, evidence at all about our elections, or in china, following leaders who are closing instead of opening. as an artist, how do you convince people, persuade, inspire people to be on the side of freedom of, as you say,

free speech, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly, all of the freedoms at the core of what it means to be a free person? >> thank you. freedom often misunderstood. i think freedom is the essential quality of life. without freedom individuals all lose their identity. the same as society. so this is not a-- just a choice, but, rather, it's the fundamental quality of life. so then they have to say freedom of expression and that which means you can say something different.

you can be different. you can be critical. otherwise, what is freedom of expression? so we see often in today's society, gradually it's deteriorating. so, i think that that is not good sign for a strong society. >> well, i think it's important at this meeting particularly, where people come together determined to try to find ways to solve problems, to keep going as we say, and to hear from someone who has faced limitations on your freedom, limitations on your free expression. what final thoughts or what words would you share with us, weiwei about people who may not understand what it is to be in

prison or what it is to be outcast, but who want to help those who are literally on the front lines. how would you suggest that we think about what we each can do to support, really, the front line fighters for freedom and democracy? >> i think it's very simple. we have to see each individual as part of humanity so we're not fighting our own, but at the same time we're part of the human society and we talk about refugees, you mentioned earlier, so we have to think of refugees, the refugees, so even not losing our country or our

property, but we're losing important foundation of humanity, which is much worse than just to lose a house or property. so we have to see humanity as one and we are all responsible for the crisis and only by doing that, then we know the individual expression is so important because we saw the individual freedom of expression. the freedom of expression is in society and it's not going to be a healthy society. >> i think there's something that we can all agree on. i love your emphasis understanding that we all are part of humanity and how we define ourselves in

relationship to humanity will say a lot about the kind of future that we will have. because there are too many people in the world right now who want to set us against each other, to basically point fingers and scapegoat the other, to try to divide us, which only enhances their power and their position by trying to keep us all at odds with each other. and i cannot thank you enough ai weiwei, for your work that lifts our eyes up, understand humanity, and anyone without freedom affects us. join me in thanking him. >> (applause)