Since 1979 in partnership with the cable industry, cspan covered complete hearings and Committee Meetings of congress. Cspan gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided with no commentary and no interruptions and completely unfiltered. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Coming up, hillary and chelsea clinton, participating in the open session of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in new york city. Joining them were activists around the world including Actress Ashley Judd to discuss women and girls rights, Climate Change and access to aids and h. I. V. Treatment. [applause] when i was 6 years old, being too young to stay at home alone, i would take a bus every day after school to my aunts. I wanted to play outside but instead i had to listen to life stories of everyday people that came to my aunt daisys beauty salon, the village in little rock, arkansas. My aunt daisy was hardworking and compassionate and her salon, though small, was illuminating. My childhood was triggering and overwhelming at times. But it was also beautiful. Those days spent 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 the salon or barber chair has the power to create lasting impacts or even a movement. If i ask you to close your eyes and think of africa, i bet most of you would be barefoot running in the dust. The cliche of africa is really a succession of tragedies and academics but the reality that those challenges are tremendous. As of today, 1. 3 billion africans representing 25 of our population and in 2001, 1 . Africa is the youngest continent with a median age of 20 years old, 60 below 25 and all aspiring to have a decent life. Africans are still poor mostly without access to clean water, Food Security and above all the hardest tragedy is access to education. Its not inclusion of the pyramid. To give an example, africa needs 100 times more universities to be able to really answer to the needs. And often inefficient policies that were not able to address these issues so far. Over the years, therapy and personal Development Helped me work through traumatic experiences in my childhood. I recognize the same pain needed for coping skills and so many other marginalized black men and boys which led me to create the confess project of america in 2016 to provide others with Mental Health strategies and coping skills to have them move past their own pain. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for black men between the ages of 1824, 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 a journey of impact met me as it speaks to the work the confess project of america now does in over 52 cities and 30 states. Train barber and stylist to be Mental Health advocates. And in 2022, the confess project made a commitment to action to increase Mental Health access and decrease the stigma of Mental Health by meeting people where they already are in barbershops. Since then with the department of Behavior Health in georgia we trained over 500 beauty stylists. 50 of the barbers and stylists have gone through the training and are better informed about Mental Health than they were before, because of the support of c. G. I. We cemented a partnership with the Walmart Foundation addressing juvenile Justice Strategies in arkansas. Weve also formed a partnership with truist bank to help expand our curriculum across the southeast in 20 barber schools. Im 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] you may being theres no straightforward solution. We believe education is the one. Africa does not have the luxury to take its time and build universities the same traditional ways in the western countries so it will have to leapfrog through advanced technology and alternative education. Seeing this, we started in 2016o. S. C. , which is a not for profit supporting young entrepreneurs in africa. We started in tune hes yeah and together with Columbia University we built a program that targeted a hundred youth trained every year, mentored them, offered them International Exposure and we scaled the model slowly through the whole country targeting all universities with hundreds of faculty all trained to help us in our mission. In seven years, we supported 2,000 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 own employees only. Today i stand before you to announce the o. S. C. s commitment to expand the model across africa. We tried it in morocco and tried it in senegal and it worked. Were trying to do that at scale and this initiative has diversified including Columbia University but also m. I. T. Said lets join and we added also many countries, the u. S. Embassy, the german government, the european union, france, digital africa, african invest and one of the first buildings built in africa by a. I. It 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 any of us here is not always easy. Its hard some days to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Over the last year we faced changes in funding and organizational shifts but last year made the commitment to help 300 barbers and stylists learn Mental Health strategies to support their clients, families and community members. And with the support of this community, we will see our commitment to action to help create a culture of Mental Health for communities of color. And at times when i start to lose hope i remember the compassion i felt as a young child with my aunt daisy. We must remain compassionate and resilient. We have to keep going. [applause] so i come all the way from tune hes yeah, the little tunisia, the Little Country that uses flowers to disrupt regimes and some know us as creators of the string but we want to create the entrepreneurization built in africa. Tunisia offered its name. And as of today im 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 and my friend lorenzo. But i also never thought we could transform a International Competition into an african ecosystem, recognized and globally connected and changing the narrative of africa because africa is the future. We refused to believe there is no solution. There is no curse. There just needs to be a shift in the paradigm. There need to be new solutions. And we are witnessing the shift. We are all in this journey together because its our future. And we will make sure that this reality across the continent happens and well all keep going. Enjoy your day. [applause] i could not be happier ive had a chance today to see firsthand what is happening here in the foundation for recovery. I just saw a room packed with volunteers who are putting together recovery kits. I just wanted to come and see all of you and thank every one of you and tell you how meaningful this work is. Thank you very, very much. Since 2019 weve distributed and received over 20,000 lifesaving prevention kits which has been a collaborative effort with the Clinton Foundation that will revive and reverse preventible opiod overdose. 34 people who struggle with addictions do eventually recover. We cant they cant recover if we deny resources and they think prison is the answer instead of recovery is the answer. So weve got work to do. Thank you all for all the work youre doing. We admire what you do by caring and loving. The clinton coalition, i cant think of a Better Organization that reminds us we have a future. Its 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 viv. I really like that last session and i hope you did. I think of all the challenges we face. It is likely that non requires more collective action than seriously addressing Climate Change. Every day we have new evidence of a new reality we already live in. The wildfires are more deadly and more rapidly moving. The floods are deeper and droughts longer and the hurricanes and typhoons more severe. Record air and ocean temperatures, species dieoffs, 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 challenges including poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease, and of course armed conflict. But theres a flip side here. We know that if we Work Together and whenever we do it seriously, deliberately, and over an extended period of time, things get better. We can lift up the community and improve the human condition. And we know that theres 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, and improve outcomes. Today im pleased to introduce one of them. He is and is really whom 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 divide to prove that a Common Future can be built. Now ill let him explain it, but he decided on his own, thats how we found him and how we began to Work Together. And he decided on his own that the rest of us had not done enough about Climate Change. Which was painfully self evident by a lot of people saying that and never doing anything about it. So i would like to introduce him. [applause] president clinton, distinguished guests, good morning. Thank you, mr. President , for the warm words. What an honor to stand here with you on this prominent stage. We worked very hard to reach this moment of the announcement, and im 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 raise a united hand and address one of the most critical challenges of all time, Climate Change. We are crying out for help, devastating wildfires ravaging canada. Hawaii faces the deadliest blaze in a century. Destructive hurricanes and typhoons are smashing against our coastlines. Crippling droughts are consuming africa and unprecedented heat waves are striking europe and north america. These disastrous events are alarming signs of a new normal we cannot and should not accept. Throughout my career, i was privileged to build companies that held the technology to empower people. Inspired by you, president clinton, now i inspire to stand and harness technologies to help our planet. Following long and extensive preparation, we proudly announce, i joined Climate Tech Fund echo breach. [applause] thank you. Echo breach represents the opportunity to create a future in which Economic Growth and environmental prosperity are two sides of the same coin. Through ecobridge fund well invest in a wide range of cutting Edge Technologies that will shape the Sustainable Future for our children. Humanity has the resilience to conger great challenges o epidemics and devastating wars of tyranny. President clinton, we are both fully 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] lets 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. Please welcome dr. Chelsea clinton. C. Clinton dr. Clinton good evening, everyone. I didnt know the hue to the blue to match awkwardly and meticulously. Im incredibly grateful for our next conversation because were coming together at a moment where there is both an enormous reason for optimism about the fight for h. I. V. 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 u. N. Aids that we can in new h. I. V. Infections and the Public Health emergency that has been aids for more than three decades if we stay the course through 2030. This is only possible as a promise because of the extraordinary work of activists, of advocates, of scientists, of grassroots organizers, of doctors and nurses and midwives. Many of you here in this room of course the many decades of h. I. V. 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 year decided to do something about the deep inequity that existed in access to hivaids treatment. People in the United States were more likely to have access, still too far did and People Living in south africa and much of the global south had no effective access to the medicines that were able to turn aids into a chronic livable illness because that cost of treating a person per year more than 20 years ago was 10,000. And so my father launched the clinton hivaids initiative, now chi which had been a high priced low volume market to a high volume low priced market and today the average cost of treating a person per year in the global south is less than 60. So im incredibly proud of this work and am proud that my father and the many thousands of Extraordinary People who have worked at chi and continue to work at chi have taken that as only a reason to keep going to do more. So chi has negotiated more than 140 different commodities arrangements enabling earlier detection, treatment, and when possible vaccinations against a number of the health scourges 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 in sight is an incredible testament to the work of everyone over the last 30plus years to get us at this point, as we heard earlier in the conversation about protecting hivaids rights, we cannot take our foot off the pedal and we could not mistake progress for success and we cannot take for granted that everyone will recognize the importance of this fight for justice, equity, and health. Because while certainly we are very proud at chi for all the work weve been able to be a 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 that have been engaged in this fight has been made possible by the work of the global funds to fight aids, tuberculosis, and malaria, by u. N. Aids, by the world health organization, by unicef and many of those that have been at the large global multilateral institutions, many of whom in turn have received support from pet far, the u. S. Emergency plan for aid relief president bush launched in 2003. It is one that where much of its two decade existence has received even recently strong bipartisan support here in the United States. And yet today reauthorization for petfar is not something to take for granted. 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 hold such a stranglehold for our presence and our future. While the u. N. Aids report suggest the data is robust and strong and we can end aids as a Public Health crisis and end new h. I. V. 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 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 and for those of us who care about Public Health, we have to care about the fight for petfar reauthorization and the one critical step for reaching the milestone u. N. Aids tells us is possible. After we reach that milestone we have to continue to provide support for everyone living with hivaids are able to live lives full of dignity, promise, purpose and then hopefully then die of Something Else at 100. Because if 100 is the milestone were also all marching towards, everyone who lives with hivaids deserves to reach that milestone, too. So i just hope that if you didnt know what petfar was three minutes ago, you do now. Even if you think aids isnt your issue and kids is, you now care about this, and hope at least some of you and all the americans in this room, make sure that your elected representatives know why this is important to you and why it is clearly so evidently now important to all of us. So with that, its my incredible honor to introduce someone who knows quite a bit about the effort to put aids in the rearview mirror, the executive director of u. N. Aids and has dedicated her life to helping to advance issues that relate to women and childrens rights, health, safety, equity and equality for all of us. She is someone i have long admired and im quite giddy i get to monopolize the next 16 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 it relates to both this global Health Crisis and anything and Everything Else we all care about. Please join me in giving winnie a very, very warm welcome to the stage. [applause] thank you so much. Dr. Clinton thank so you much for being here. I hope that we could start with you kind of sharing with the audience kind of why there is optimism from the aids perspective and what you see in the data that compels you to put a stake in the ground to say if we stay the course, we can end new h. I. V. Infections by 2030. Winnie thank you, chelsea, and thank you for inviting me here to be with you. I thank the Clinton Global Initiative for making this an important issue, because today there are so many crises in the world that it is dropping off the agenda. But there are three reasons why it shouldnt. One, its because aids is not over, the fight is not over. We have 30 Million People living healthy lives and another nine Million People living with h. I. V. 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 each though theres no cure or no vaccine. We have tools in between to get everyone, first to prevent infections and get everyone on meds and we have the means but lack the will. The reason we must keep this alive on the agenda is its a smart investment to fight hivaids. When you fight hivaids, the things you do to fight, also contributes to sustaining the Development Goals and secondly, fighting hivaids is prevention, when youre preventing h. I. V. Infections, youre preventing other pandemics and give chasity to be prepared for any future ones. Its a smart investment. These things are being discussed here but often disconnected from hivaids. Those are the reasons. Weve come a long way and we know how to do it. Like i said, like you said the world came together at the height of this disease. To stay on top of covid. The world came together and agreed to fight together and made commitments and clear targets that are renewed every five years. We come here every five years and make a new declaration, set new targets and Work Together globally. Like your father and like president bush and after that global consensus came with this global contribution. And the final capacities in the developing world where it was weaker and where the burden was highest. The global fund came and then people themselves fought and again leaders rose and the crisis came down and everyone could have this lifesaving pill. So we need to repeat those successes. Thank you for bringing us here to remind people 40 years ago the people came together and now weve achieved so much. Weve got 30 Million People living good lives. We have another nine million to bring to treatment and we have children who are dying, children who are dying because they got between them and adults in reaching treatment. Its so wide. We cant treat them. We need to reach them. The job is not done. Chelsea winnie, reflecting, listening to you, how much of a challenge do you think the success of the last kind of 40 years when the world first really came together, the First International aids conference kind of set a set of goals and more countries and more science, more activists kind of came to every conference, we had the birth of the global fund, petfar and that so many people who may not be as close to this as you and i, more things have happened and its now time to focus on Something Else. 30,000 people are in treatment and what you and i believe, we need to get the nine million more people in treatment and need to prevent the new pandemic and Everyone Needs the tools to keep themselves safe and healthy, other people may focus, look at the 30 Million People in treatment, doesnt that mean we can do less . How do you respond to that . Winnie 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, its a sad story. These nine Million People are not nine million that need to get in treatment but 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, its a sad story about who we are as a world chelsea and who we value. Winnie and who we value. 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 doesnt get access to treatment are lbgtq 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 that put them at more risk, not only to get infected but also less opportunity to get what they need to get on treatment. So it is a disease of injustice. It is not it is injustice, it is inequality. But when you start to close the door on rights, when you ensure everybody 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 who needs treatment, you start to see progress. But all lives matter. We cant say weve done 30 million and less than nine million die. You cannot say that. All lives matter. And children, lbgtq people, girls and women especially in africa, at least were saving them. Chelsea were failing them but yet more likely able to reach more people in more places if we have both petfar and global commitment and leadership from a lot of people across town. So i wonder, winnie, as youve been so deeply in this work what you have found and what are the arguments that work to help those we need on our side to keep going . Winnie well, first i can identify five key elements of making progress, how weve gotten here. One is the Strong Political leadership youre 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. Its failing now. We are in a world where the geopolitics have gone crazy and its hard to get people to commit. Political leadership is key here. We need to follow the science as i said and we need 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 inequalities for those people most at risk. In africa, women and girls. Gan men. And transgender women particularly. Gay men. We have to let communities lead. That is key. Communities must lead. Because h. I. V. Has transported in this way and communities coming in gay groups, womens groups, serving themselves individually and they reach everyone, they reach those who would never be reached. So letting communities lead but were seeing civic space shrinking and we have to fight for that. And fifth, financing. Financing is waning, its dropping because of geopolitical tensions, its dropping because of financing. We have to keep the financing thats been there. So what do we say to them . We say youre almost there. Look, today we have five countries with the highest burden who has already hit the targets for 2025, botswana, a small country called iswatini, a Little Island in the middle of south africa. But it has hit the target. Rwanda, tanzania, botswana. These are countries that have already met the Midway Target of 2025. Another 16 are almost there. So were close. Why drop the ball when you are winning . So this is the argument we want to give them and that when you do it, you also solve other problems. But we have real challenges, chelsea. I come from uganda, i think youve heard the story there, there was a horrible law that was enacted. But look, i was there last week, and activists, women and men living with h. I. V. , gay men, have come together, gone to the government and said, ok, youve made that law, we hate it, its 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 to sensitize police, soldiers about how not to do more harm. This is for me tells you that we must not give up. If they are fighting, dont give up. [applause] chelsea winnie, we see so much of what has made the progress of the last particularly couple decades against hivaids possible under attack, even what you mentioned about new laws in places, including in this country, the kind of efforts to retrench funding, the ongoing deep structural vulnerability of girls and women and members of the lbgtq 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 admonitions to keep going and i wonder in our closing couple minutes if you could share any reflections you have from your time at u. N. Aids that could be relevant to people who hopefully, you know, care about this, that their central compulsion is Climate Change or girls rights broadly or education, kind of what do you think youve learned that could be relevant to anyone as they think about the need to keep going . Winnie ok. Before i get there, let me inject myself in your politics. Chelsea please, inject away. Youre always welcome. Winnie yes. Ill learn to say to american congressmen and women and senators, please authorize pepfar. Reauthorize pepfar. We need it. We are here because of the leadership of america. The generosity of americans. People building this into their response. In the high volume countries in africa, many of them, 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 toward servicing their debt just the interest from their debt, four or five times as much as they are putting in their own health systems. Leave alone the others. 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. Its 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 im hopeful. Im hopeful that pepfar will be reauthorized because people i know are alive today because the support is there. And more is needed today than ever before. Your question was ive forgotten. Chelsea i think maybe you answered it. The singular, unrelenting focus, to inject yourself in any room or conversation where you need to be to ensure you can meet your objectives. And thats really ultimately good for all of us because the return on investment for americans on pepfar has been extraordinary. More than 25 Million People are on dreams. What has happened with the number of kids who have been able to go to school. Parents who are able to work. Sustainable actions that can be put into motion. Anything that may have brought you into this room is related to pepfar reauthorization. At the risk of belaboring, please for the americans, call your representatives. Please to all of you, give winie a huge amount of gratitude. We appreciate her time with us. [cheers and applause] if there is one message that echoes forth from this Conference Let it be that human rights are womens rights and womens rights are human rights. Once and for all. We need a generational plan to ensure were never silenced again. How long will it take until you began danes are aloud back in their schools . Every time someone is walking through these doors, thats an awakening. Unleash the potential of women, thats how youll stimulate your economy. We are joined by so many people making remarkable commitments, continued efforts, so all the worlds girls may someday be free. We care, were going to fight for what we care about until you pay for it. As you stand or sit here today we are seeing a backsliding in the rights of women and girls. From the education bans on girls in afghanistan to abortion bans here. 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 c. G. I. From the very beginning. Probably not surprising, given who my mom is and also because Climate Resilience is a women and girls issue. Building an inclusive economy is a womens issue. And certainly health equity, as we have just heard is a womens issue. And i think we can all recognize this is not an ordinary moment. So we here at c. G. I. Felt that we needed to be doing even more than we already had been. Particularly when we read the recent u. N. Report that said it will take 300 years at 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 if not in my lifetime, at least in the lifetime of my daughter and my son. As we were formalizing a new focus for c. G. I. , 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, watching us online, will engage in this work, and we know that we have to draw on the expertise of members of our c. G. I. Community today and those who we hope will become part of our c. G. I. Community. 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 frontlines of the fight for gender equality and equity. Who have persisted in the face of extraordinary challenges and who have always kept going and who are calling on all of us to keep going with them. So please join me in welcoming my friend, rasma sujani. [applause] we talk a lot about about billion dollar ideas. We talk a lot about billion dollar ideas of things that become the next iphone. What if i told you i had a billion dollar idea. A simple idea. That would lift millions of families out of poverty. Im talking of course about investing in working moms. I founded my nonprofit, no, maams moms first, at the height of the pandemic, when women were being pushed out of the work force in droves and replacing their paid work with unpaid care. Three years later, things havent gotten better. America is still the only industrialized nation that doesnt guarantee paid leave. One in four moms go become to work two weeks after having a baby. We invest less in child care than any other wealthy nation. 40 of families go into debt because of the cost of child care. This means that every day, parents, especially moms, are forced to make impossible choices between feeding their children and funding day care. Between tending to their careers, and tending to their families. Enough is enough. To finish the fight for gender equality we have to finish the fight for moms. Were done performing a high wire balancing act with no safety net. Were done being that safety net. Its time to invest in policies that are going to help moms not survive, but thrive. Paid leave. Affordable child care. Equal pay. I promise, this billion dollar idea will pay dividends. [applause] chelsea and now id like to introduce nina and helena to the stage. 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 us our language, our songs that hold Vital Information about the rain forest. I also saw them kick 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 they survive, heal, and lead solutions and healing of our communities and land. Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by Climate Change while 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 toward Indigenous People. We would estimate that from that perhaps 10 to 30 goes toward 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 plant, reforest deforested areas and heal our communities from the colonial violence we have faced. [applause] where we come from, Indigenous People protect the vast majority of pristine rain forests and its estimated that worldwide, 82 of the entire worlds biodiversity is on indigenous lands. No one is better experienced to do this work than Indigenous People. And particularly Indigenous Women. Who have the experience, the skills, and the love for our people and our lands. We are building a world [applause] we are building a world where the amazon can finally be begin begin to recover and thrive for our children and also your children. Yet we never get a real seat at the table. We cannot do this alone. The world needs to invest in the expertise of Indigenous Women and that means giving us the right space, time, and the resources that we need. Thank you. [applause] chelsea and now please join me in giving a warm welcome to ashley judd. [applause] sash lee good morning ashley i stand here in solidarity, power and strength as one of hundreds of millions of women who have survived male Sexual Violence. A man molested me for the first time i remember when i was 7 years old. It was not the last time. I suffered due to a culture of demand and entitlement and didnt get justice because of impunity. Like so many women my career is different today thawz of workplace sexual harassment. All around the world, in school, brothels, markets and huts, Sexual Violence is ubiquitous and pervasive. Im also someone who for the past 18 years has seen the incredible progress that happens when this c. G. I. 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 Community for girl, women and the lgbtq ia plus community. For peace and security to manifest at every level in our personal relationships. In our politics and our economies we must be free from yenderbased harm thats subtle and covert, casual and structural. Im so glad to be here in community 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] chelsea and now id like to invite my very dear friend, dede bertram farmer to the stage. [applause] hello, everyone. I have been in africa and the caribbean for the last 27 years, serving with many institutions, including the global streut. More than ever we need health care and social protection for girls and young women. Today i choose to bring attention to the problematic of pregnancy and Mental Health. Globally, today, there are about 880 million african girls and young women age 15 to 24. Thats 12 of the worlds population. And most of them live in the low and middle income countries. Of them, 120 million are not in traditional education, nor in vocational training. Each year, 21 million get pregnant and 12 million give birth. These young women do not just bear the brunt of maternal mortality, violence, anxiety. But other, gender discrimination. Unemployment. Political instability. Natural disasters. And migration. To name a few. This is especially the situation of my home country, haiti. Today i stand here to ask the c. G. I. Community to join me in recommitting to increase access to Financial Resources and build partnership and collaboration with organizations so we can pave the way once and for all for the 12 on which the worlds future depends. Together, lets cant to invest in social structures and systems to better serve the most marginalized ones and leave no one behind. [applause] chelsea and now as it is always my honor id like all of you to warmly welcome someone ive had the enormous privilege of quite literally looking up to my whole life. Until i became taller than her. Please join me in welcoming me one of my incredible hero, someone im so thankful to call my mom, Hillary Rodham clinton. [applause] hillary thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Well. Thank you, chelsea. Youre 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 dont 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 pathways 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, womens rights are human rights. And that is moving toward the fulfillment 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 youve heard from now, have answered that call, including the women that we heard from who represent the voices of so many others. But lets 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 protect and expand access to Reproductive Health care. [applause] including safe abortion and quality Maternity Care awns 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. It is time to tackle and end the Climate Crisis which most disproportionately affects women and girls. And yes, it is time to end bigotry, discrimination, racism, misogyny, all of the ideologies that still stalk us, once and for all. And it is time finally to make it old news to say that womens rights are human rights. I mean im very grateful i had the chance to saythat. I didnt think id 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, but we would have kept building on that progress, leading toward real equality. New many of you know theres an old saying 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 commitment to action right here at c. G. I. Were excited by what were 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 face forward very long time. But were also facing new challenges, arent 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. And im sometimes quick to add, im an optimist who worries a lot but im worrying so we can bring people together to get things done, not to throw up my hands or wring them but to roll up my sleeves. I think were up to the task together. And its never been more urgent. So lets get to work and lets keep going. Thank you all so much. [applause] thank you. Im so happy to see you, my friends. In 2015, world vision and our partners made an audacious commitment, to reach everyone, everywhere with clean water and end the world water crisis. We are on track with this commitment. Weve seen one new person every 10 seconds with clean water. We had a gamechanging 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. Then each year we reached more and more people. Until by 2023, all the districts turned green. We have finished the job. We exceeded our commitment and reached more than one Million People with clean water. We reached people like serafina and elois and her family who prayed for clean water. World vision has finished the job in rwanda and its changing the country. Clean water means life. Taught us very good lessons that we can actually make a difference. 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 watt bier 2030. Including finishing the job of ensuring clean water for everyone, everywhere we work in zambia and honduras. We believe that with everyone doing their part, we will solve the global water crisis together. Please welcome back secretary Hillary Rodham clinton. And ai weiwei. Hillary im pleased to have the opportunity to speak to someone whose life speaks to the challenge to keep going. Thank you for joining us. I want to dive right in. Your life and work in many ways are great examples of 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 dealt with these moments of personal challenge . How do you find the energy, the resilience, the motivation to keep going . First, its nice to be with you again. I remember hillary turn the volume up a little bit on the headset. Wait just one second. We might need a hand held. Hello. Hi. Thank you. Much more comfortable. After my release, i realized the only leaders, the International Leaders who speak out about to the chi needs government to say to release me, was the u. S. Im grateful for that. [applause] so to open with your idea, to precisely tell what is in the mind, is so important in Todays Society. For me to face these kinds of difficulty, im always thinking thats been given to me as an opportunity. To challenge me. To get into much deeper thinking about what im doing and why im doing that. So that helps a lot. So once you formally believe in what youre doing theres no fear. The fear of it belongs to the other side. So thats how i feel. Hillary thats interesting because you know, we talk about how we want to support people who are literally on the frontlines of all these great struggles of our time. And thats one of the reasons we thought it was important to have you here because thats where youve been for years now. And going deep, thinking hard, about what you believed and what you want to convey, seems like an important lesson for all of us. But we are living in a more fragmented world. You have speaken about that. Forces like social media and Artificial Intelligence have certainly provided benefits but theyve also served to divide us further and your art seems to comment on this social fragmentation. Tell us what youre 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 in how do we maintain, as you say, the potential to be able to think our own thoughts, to make our own contributions . The world is very fragmented. Because of a. I. No longer depends on the single moral foundation. Its very shattered, the world, like a broken mirror. That broken mirror still reflects realty. And art or culture or humanity still helps us to it cannot crust depend on scientific development. Of course they benefit by scientific development. But if we are not at the same time making an effort to prepare human humanity, human right, freedom of speech and other very Crucial Properties of human life or societys important quality, then it doesnt matter how fast we develop, were still living in a society. Theres no way hue mapty can be saved just based on scientific development. Hillary i thought a lot about an article you wrote in the New York Times i think it was last year about how your thinking concerning china and whats happening in china today, you know, were seeing a startling rise in authoritarianism globally and i really hope you listened to this statistic, it shocked me and i made sure it was double checked, but 72 of the worlds population right now, or 5. 7 billion people, live under authoritarian rule. Now here in the United States, we know were grappling with this question as well and its 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, you know, the internet is not going to change china. There are forces at work inside your home country. So how are you think act this global rise in authoritarianism and the crackdowns and the consolidation of power particularly in china . I think we have to recognize that Democratic Practice is still a minority. We have to look at it historically and we also have to look at ourselves. So this is a very complicated issue. We talk about a competition, or efficiency, than we realize china have a much more powerful ways to really become even stronger. China is not going to disappear into and other nations like india all catch up. We have to recognize whats called democracy today in the west, what is wrong . What is wrong . Why we cant provide, we think its a better value. Freedom of speech. Independent judicial system. And free media. So something must be wrong there. Why we cant face the challenge. Because we have to accept as reality, its not just its just not being positive. Its not just about the poetry reading. Its really daytoday reality. So i think that takes logical thinking and historical perspective. Hillary its interesting. 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 an others to express themselves. But youre right to ask the question, what is wrong with us . Why do 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 that are really at the core of what it means to be a free person . Thank you. I think of freedom often being misunderstood. I think freedom is essential quality of life. Without freedom, individuals lose their identity. Same with the society. So this is not just a choice, but rather this is the fundamental quality of life. So then they have to say freedom of expression. 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 Todays Society that is gradually not existing. Its debilitating. I think thats not a good sign for a strong society. Hillary i think its important at this meeting particularly where people come together, determined to try to find ways to solve problems, to keep going as we say, to hear from someone who has space limitations on your freedom, limitations on your free expression. What final thoughts, or what words would you share with us about how people who may not understand what it is to be imprisoned or what it is to be outcast but who want to help those who are literally on the frontlines on the front line, how would you suggest we think about what we each can do to support, really, the frontline fighters for freedom and democracy . I think its very simple. Its part of the humanity. We are not fighting just for our own but at the same time, part of the human society. And we talk about refugee you mentioned earlier, so we have to think of refugees are us, or we are the refugees. Even if were not losing our country or our property, we are losing important foundations 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 responsible for the crisis. And only by doing that do we know the individual is so important. Because we saw the individual, freedom of expression, freedom of expression in society. Its not going to be a healthy society. Hillary i think thats something we can all agree on. I loved your emphasis on understanding that we are all 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 for your work which tries to make us lift our eyes up, see your common humanity, understand that someone is being that someone being depried of freedom anywhere in the world affects us. Please join me in thanking this in thanking this extraordinary artist and advocate. Thank you. 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