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Because I am a Girl

Because I am a Girl is Plan's campaign to fight gender inequality, promote girls' rights and lift millions of girls out of poverty.

Across the world, girls face the double discrimination of their gender and age, leaving them suffering at the bottom of the social ladder.

Girls are denied access to health services and education, and also face extremely high levels of violence, abuse, and harassment. Join the campaign via Plan's fundraising country websites, opposite.

Girl reports

Plan is producing one girl report each year in the run up to 2015, the target year for the Millennium Development Goals.

Girls report 2010

Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2010



The 2010 report looks at the prospects and perils facing girls in two of the 21st century's fastest growing areas - cities and information communication technology. 
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Girls report 2009

Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2009



The 2009 report focuses on the global economy and warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year. 
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Girls report 2008

Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2008



Special Focus: In the shadow of war.
 The 2008 report examines the state of girls in conflict situations around the world. 
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Girls report 2007

Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2007



The first in a series of reports following 135 girls born in 2006 to see how their gender impacts on their lives. 
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Because I am a Girl: the state of the girl child in India in 2009



This report focuses on the problems faced by girls as well as on their achievements and empowerment
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