U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: #GirlsShine on International Day of the Girl
Emily Kearney, senior policy adviser in the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, recognizes International Day of the Girl and discusses the U.S. commitment to promoting girls’ rights and empowerment, including U.S. efforts to end the HIV epidemic through “empowering, supporting, and protecting girls” and remarks by USAID Administrator Mark Green “in which he emphasized the role that girls play in [the U.S.] effort to end the need for foreign assistance” (10/20).