WOMEN AND CHANGE

Gucci's open letter to from Global Citizen + chime for change on International Women’s Day

by team Paris Social Diary, photography by Courtesy | 8 March, 2017

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In 2013, Gucci joined with CHIME FOR CHANGE to convene, unite and strengthen the voices speaking out for girls and women around the world. Today, the brand find itself under threat of seeing a generation’s worth of hard-won gains reversed.

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All over the world, women are on the frontlines fighting for our future. Yet millions of girls and women are still denied basic equal rights. And recent policies and appointments in the United States jeopardize its position as a global leader and positive role model on human rights.

Gucci stand together to say, in a voice louder than ever, that fighting for gender equality is the emergency and the opportunity of our time.

With every generation, our story has spread wider, become more familiar. The voices telling it braver, more powerful. But our story is far from over.

This is about hearing a call – to join us wherever you are. About raising an alarm – drawing attention where there is work to be done. And about celebrating – those who are already showing us, against impossible odds, what is possible.

 

We fight for education. For health. For justice. For every girl. Every woman. Everywhere. We fight for our future.

Because none of us can move forward if half of us are held back.

Join and take action for gender equality at globalcitizen.org/IWD2017