Female artists have come together to promote girl power and gender equality. So they are using a video remake of the famous Spice Girls song “Wannabe” to tell world leaders what we really really want for girls and women.
The artists include Seyi Shay from Nigeria, Gigi Lamayne and Monoea from South Africa, Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez from Sri Lanka, M.O from the UK, Taylor Hatala from Canada and Larsen Thompson from the USA.
The video is produced by Project Everyone, an organization working to spread awareness about the U.N.’s Global Sustainability Goals.
According to the organisation on YouTube;
In 2015 world leaders promised to put girls and women first when they signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, fix climate change and tackle inequalities.
Girls and women are disproportionately affected by these challenges and are key to building resilient communities to withstand them.
That’s why we need to ensure World Leaders and the Secretary General of the United Nations listen to the voices of girls and women and put them first in policies and plans.
2016 is our chance to use our collective power and tell world leaders what we really really want for girls and women.
If you make the noise, we’ll get your message to world leaders at the UN in September.
The Global Goals will only ever be achieved if governments, businesses, communities and YOU invest in girls and women.
The group enjoins people to start sharing what you really really want for girls and women.
Using the #WhatIReallyReallyWant hashtag, share a photo of yourself holding up what YOU really, really want for girls and women…
Check out some of the people that have shared the message on Twitter.
#WhatIReallyReallyWant is no more girls dying of HIV @TheGlobalGoals X vb pic.twitter.com/mFza6cHyBx
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) July 5, 2016
Share this now: #WhatIReallyReallyWant is #ZeroHunger — @TheGlobalGoals pic.twitter.com/CRhrciK8nT
— World Food Programme (@WFP) July 5, 2016
#WhatIReallyReallyWant is to see Goal 5 – Gender Equality achieved @theGlobalGoals
— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) July 5, 2016
