Five things you (probably) didn’t know about Global Citizen Festival
The Global Citizen Festival is so much more than a celebration — it’s a chance for people to come together, have their voices heard, and demand real change from those in positions of power. It’s a key, strategic part of our mission to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. As a Global Citizen, you can advocate for … The post Five things you (probably) didn’t know about Global Citizen Festival appeared first on Asaase Radio.
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The Global Citizen Festival is so much more than a celebration — it’s a chance for people to come together, have their voices heard, and demand real change from those in positions of power. It’s a key, strategic part of our mission to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide.
As a Global Citizen, you can advocate for policies, support sustainable practices, and educate others. Take action and use your voice to defeat poverty, defend the planet, and demand equity. Every action, no matter how small, contributes to a global movement for a more just and sustainable world.
Not just about music
While the Global Citizen Festival is primarily a music festival, it also includes speeches, presentations, and calls to action from world leaders, activists, and celebrities. These non-musical elements are designed to educate and inspire attendees to take action on global issues.
In fact, in order to attend the festival, fans must earn their tickets by taking action on social media and completing various challenges related to the festival’s causes.
Changing the world
Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty.
On our platform, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on those issues, and earn rewards for their actions — as part of a global community committed to lasting change. Our Global Citizen Festivals bring together political decision makers, philanthropists, artists and citizens from all over the world to act.
Since 2011, millions of global citizens from around the world have taken over 28 million actions targeting world leaders to end extreme poverty by 2030. To date, the actions taken by our global community, along with our high level advocacy efforts, have impacted more than 880 million lives worldwide.
We are stronger together. By taking action across the world, we can defend the planet, defeat poverty, and demand equity for all.
Undertaken over 33.5 million actions
Since 2009, Global Citizens have collectively taken over 33.5 million actions on our platforms. Over $43.6 billion has been distributed to organisations and people fighting to end extreme poverty, impacting more than 1.3 billion lives.
For years, pledges made by world leaders and private sector members at Global Citizen Festivals have included not only financial commitments, but also reinforcement for global human rights frameworks and policies that aim to end extreme poverty.
What are they advocating for in 2024?
Every year, the Global Citizen Festival aims to shine a bright spotlight on some of our most pressing policy demands to inspire the most action possible. This year is no different. The crises our world is facing are intricately linked and multifaceted; it’s impossible, for example, to disentangle the climate crisis from social welfare, as the World Bank estimates that climate change could push up to 132 million people into poverty by 2030.
This means it’s imperative to tackle these issues simultaneously. With this in mind, we’ve boiled down our primary policy goals into three pillars of action:
- Defeat Poverty
- Defend the Planet
- Demand Equity
Making an impact
The 2018 Global Citizen Festival Mandela 100 in Johannesburg saw more than 60 commitments made to help deliver on-the-job training, healthcare, education, and more to communities across Africa.
Five years later, more than $7.4 billion in funding has been delivered to organisations dedicated to fighting extreme poverty, impacting the lives of 122 million people globally. Over in Germany, a Global Citizen Festival held in 2017 in Hamburg resulted in commitments worth €638 million ($706 million), set to affect 113 million people worldwide by 2030. In India, the 2016 Global Citizen Festival held in Mumbai had 28 commitments with the potential to affect nearly 560 million lives by 2030.
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