Witnesses, thank you for all the work that you do.
I think that this week we are celebrating or highlighting the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. I guess we still have some way to go, including in our own country, as you've pointed out.
I want to focus more on girls. I'm not minimizing what's happening to boys, and they very much have to be part of the solution and men as well, but it is girls who are forced into marriages and become child brides and are victims of sex trafficking and female genital mutilation. More than one person has spoken to us today about the importance of empowering girls, and I couldn't agree more. However, when I think about empowering girls, I'm thinking about some of the obstacles they face with respect to certain religions, with respect to deeply ingrained cultural traditions.
This question is for all of you. It's my only question. Could you give me some indication of how the empowerment is happening despite all of these very daunting challenges that girls face?