- For those looking to make a difference, the Global Citizen NOW summit will be a memorable event.
- Global Citizen NOW announced its return on Tuesday, with co-chairs Chris Martin and Hugh Jackman.
- The event will take place on April 27 and 28 and is focused on turning ideas .
The stars will join leaders in music, entertainment, philanthropy, public policy, climate activism and the corporate sector in New York City. More attendees include Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana and Erna Solberg, former Prime Minister of Norway.
The event will take place on April 27 and 28 and is focused on turning ideas into impact and driving urgent action to end extreme poverty now.
Hugh Evans, Co-Founder and CEO of Global Citizen, expressed the significance of the annual advocacy festival, which aims to move world leaders to enact policy changes regarding women’s equality, education, health, water and sanitation, environment, finance and innovation and food and hunger.
“Decades of systemic and political failures have led humanity into the midst of converging and rapidly deteriorating crises – climate, hunger, health, war and conflict. The most marginalized populations are paying the price of the stagnant inaction of our leaders, and now millions of lives, and the future of our planet, are at stake,” Evans said.
“We refuse to just stand by and watch! We refuse to accept the starvation of multitudes when solutions are readily at hand. We demand a secure future for girls everywhere. We demand governments keep their promises on climate funding. We demand relief from debts unjustly crushing economies. And we demand action NOW, while there’s still time to change our collective trajectory,” he concluded
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