Trudeau joins campaign recognizing link between poverty and gender inequality
SAGUENAY, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined a social media campaign urging world leaders to acknowledge that poverty has a disproportionate impact on girls and women.
“Women and girls are less likely to get an education, more likely to be impoverished, and face greater risk of disease and poor health,” Trudeau wrote in a letter released early Thursday morning.
The letter was crafted in response to a call from the ONE Campaign — an organization co-founded by Bono, the frontman for the Irish rock band U2, which promotes maternal and child health projects in developing countries in Africa and elsewhere.
The organization had sent an open letter to Trudeau and other global leaders this March to coincide with International Women’s Day asking them to recognize that poverty and gender inequality go hand in hand.