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" Chances are you&amp;#039;ve heard somebody mention &amp;#039;International Day of the Girl&amp;#039; at some point this week \u2013 that&amp;#039;s because the third International Day of the Girl is happening tomorrow. If you&amp;#039;re still not sure what it&amp;#039;s actually all about, it&amp;#039;s a global initiative set up because 31 million girls around the world are denied education, with some even being attacked for just trying to go to school. It&amp;#039;s a day that recognises that 125 million girls and women have been subjected to FGM, and 14 million girls are married before the age of 18 every single year. And the fact that 1 in 10 girls worldwide suffer serious sexual violence at some point in their lives. Day of the Girl is effectively saying, &amp;#039;enough is enough&amp;#039; on behalf of girls and women everywhere, and aims to ensure that all girls \u2013 no matter where they live or who they are \u2013 have exactly the same opportunities in life. We asked Sarah Brown, President of children&amp;#039;s charity Theirworld, to tell us what exactly she&amp;#039;s doing about it \u2013 and how we can get involved too.  &amp;quot;International Day of the Girl exists because everyday girls are abused, mistreated and discriminated against and the world needed a prompt to put a stop to it,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I hate that we need this day. So let&amp;#039;s work to abolish it. Each of those statistics (above) makes my blood boil - and each of them is within our power to change. To mark Girls Day, I am supporting A World at School youth ambassadors from around the world who have launched the #UpForSchool Petition demanding that world leaders get every girl and boy in to school, no matter who they are or where they are born. Together we can build a movement that no one can ignore. But everybody can get involved \u2013 perhaps you want to add your support, sign the petition and share it with people you know. Or share the Girls Day film so that more people are aware of the campaign? Maybe you don&amp;#039;t want to be part of a formal initiative but would still like to help \u2013 if that&amp;#039;s the case, here&amp;#039;s the one thing I&amp;#039;d like you to do. Think of a girl you know. It could be your own daughter, a niece, or the little one of a friend or neighbour. Find that girl and tell her you believe in her. Tell her she can do and be whatever she wants in life. And tell her that you want to live in a world where she hears that every day, not just once a year. If we build that world, I&amp;#039;ll be the first to call for the abolition of Girls Day.&amp;quot; Here at Cosmo we&amp;#039;ll be firmly supporting International Day of the Girl tomorrow. If you want to pledge your support too \u2013 demanding that world leaders get every girl and boy into school, no matter who they are, or where they were born \u2013 send a tweet using hashtag #UpForSchool. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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