Reports and Publications

REPORT SUMMARY. A Better Normal: Girls call for a revolutionary reset.

This report summary presents the key findings and recommendations from A Better Normal: Girls Call for a Revolutionary Reset.

Free to Be Online

This year’s Plan International’s annual State of the World’s Girls report is based on research conducted across 31 countries with over 14,000 girls and young women. It aims at uncovering and understanding girls’ and young women’s experiences of being online on social media platforms.

Halting Lives: The impact of COVID-19 on girls and young women

COVID-19 is having an impact on all sectors of society across the world. But its impact does not fall equally: the virus seems to discriminate between rich and poor, young and old, male and female but is in fact taking advantage of pre-existing inequalities.

Leaving No Girl Behind

Now, more than ever, we need a clear picture of the impact of COVID-19 on girls and young women all over the world. However, specific data on girls and young women with disabilities in all their diversities is woefully inadequate.

Our Education, Our Future: Research Summary

This ground-breaking report and photograph collection is an important evidence base that highlights what adolescent girls think and feel about the interlinking challenges they face to stay in school, and the change they want to see.

Sexism in the City: Young Women Speak Up About Street Harassment in Sydney

For too many young women, street harassment leaves them feeling afraid, powerless and even at fault. Others have become desensitised to it, because after a while, it becomes ’something you have to deal with as a woman’, just a reality of life in the city.

A Better Normal: Girls call for a revolutionary reset.

A ground-breaking , youth-led research, involving more than 1,060 girls and young women from 99 countries has mapped out their visions of a better, more equitable and more peaceful post-pandemic world.

Girls’ Rights in Climate Strategies

The social and regional impacts of climate change are not distributed equally or evenly. Instead, inequality – whether economic, social, or gender-based – increases vulnerability. This particularly impacts girls. Girls are powerful agents of change, yet their rights and their potential to combat the climate crisis are not being considered by governments in global climate strategies.