Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky

Today, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky announced that they are expecting their second child. Their first daughter, Charlotte, was born September 26, 2014. Hillary and Bill Clinton both tweeted their excitement following the announcement. Congratulations to the entire family!

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Clinton Foundation: Not There Yet: A Data Driven Analysis of Gender Equality

Monday, March 9, 2015

Screen Shot 2015-03-09 at 8.20.03 PMHillary Rodham Clinton took part in a major release from the Clinton Foundation entitled Not There Yet: A Data Driven Analysis of Gender Equality. Part of the No Ceilings Project, the report outlines the progress of women around the world. To read the findings of the report, visit the website by clicking above. The full press release about the report is below and you may watch a video from the event by CLICKING HERE.

PRESS RELEASE:

The No Ceilings Initiative Releases its Full Participation Report and Data on the Status of Women and Girls through NoCeilings.org
New York, NY

20 years of global data compiled by No Ceilings show that while progress is possible, more must be done to achieve ‘full and equal participation’ for women and girls worldwide

New York, NY — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gates Foundation Co-Chair Melinda Gates and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton will join global and community leaders for the official release of the No Ceilings Full Participation Report and data visualization site NoCeilings.org on Monday, March 9, at 11:00am in New York City. The release coincides with the commencement of the 59th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women.

The No Ceilings Full Participation Report is the culmination of a year-long effort to aggregate and analyze new and existing global data by the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with The Economist Intelligence Unit, UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center, and Fathom Information Design. This comprehensive data is available in written form, as well as through a collection of interactive and sharable visualizations, graphics, stories, and compelling videos produced by Scratch, a division of Viacom. The data is open and easily downloadable.

The No Ceilings Full Participation Report and NoCeilings.org builds on the momentum of “NOT THERE,” an awareness effort launched on International Women’s Day, which brought together leading publications, fashion and consumer brands, celebrities, artists, and members of the social media community to make the point that we’re “not there” yet on issues of gender equality, both at home and abroad.

The No Ceilings data advances the evidence-based case for gender equality. The analysis finds that progress is possible – particularly when countries commit resources and political will. However, more must be done to accelerate the pace of change and achieve the full participation of women and girls in the 21st century.

The report and NoCeilings.org identifies and brings to life the significant gains women and girls have made – and the gaps that still remain – since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, when Secretary Clinton called on the international community to ensure “women’s rights are human rights.” Key highlights from the report and data include:

Significant progress has been made in the areas of health and education; for example, the rate of maternal mortality has almost been cut in half since 1995, and the gap between the number of boys and girls completing primary schools globally has nearly closed.

In other areas, the pace of change has been far too slow, including women’s economic participation, leadership, and security.  Even where there has been progress, the gains have not been shared by all: geography, income, age, race, ethnicity disability, sexual orientation, and cultural norms remain powerful determinants of a woman’s chance at equal rights and opportunities.

The world has reached a critical moment and can no longer afford to overlook the potential of half the population. Not only is the evidence about the benefits of full participation of women and girls to prosperity and stability stronger than ever before, but we have stronger tools to help accelerate progress, including 21st century technologies and dedicated private sector allies.

Findings from the report and NoCeilings.org will be on display and brought to life at today’s No Ceilings event: “Not There Yet: A Data Driven Analysis of Gender Equality.” The event, which begins at 11:00a.m., ET, at the Best Buy Theatre in New York City, will bring together and showcase the compelling stories of global and community leaders who are actively taking steps to advance the full participation of women and girls in their nations and communities. Storytellers, speakers and participants include:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
Her Excellency Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of LIberia
Darril Astrida Saunders, Founder, Exotic Caribbean Mountain Pride
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Co-founder and President, School of Leadership, Afghanistan
Ikram Ben Said, Founder and President, Aswat Nisaa
Usha Choudhary, Secretary and Program Director, Vikalp Sansthan
America Ferrera, Actor, Producer, Activist
Nely Galan, Founder of The Adelante Movement
Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, President and CEO, CARE
Wanjira Mathai, Director, wPOWER: Women’s Partnerships in Renewables
Mrs. Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice
Debra Sterling, CEO, GoldieBlox
Dr. Lisa Su, President and CEO, AMD
Genette Thelusmond, Auxiliare Midwife, Midwives for Haiti
Dr. Marcela Tovar-Restrepo, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Uzma, School of Leadership, Afghanistan Scholar
Yogesh Vaishnav, Treasurer and Program Manager, Vikalp Sansthan
Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Bruce Wilkinson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Medical Mission Board
Sheryl WuDunn, Co-author, A Path Appears
Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund (via video)

About The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation convenes businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for women and girls, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. Because of our work, 26,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; more than 40,000 farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Rwanda have improved their incomes by more than 500 percent; 33,500 tons of greenhouse gas emissions being reduced annually across the U.S.; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; 8.2 million people have access to lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications; $200 million in strategic investments have been made, impacting the health of 75 million people in the U.S.; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 3,100 Commitments to Action to improve more than 430 million lives around the world.

Learn more at http://www.clintonfoundation.org, on Facebook at Facebook.com/ClintonFoundation and on Twitter @ClintonFdn.

About The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

About The Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit is the research arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist. As the world’s leading provider of country intelligence, we help governments, institutions and businesses by providing timely, reliable and impartial analysis of economic and development strategies. Through our public policy practice, we provide evidence-based research for policymakers and stakeholders seeking measureable outcomes, in fields ranging from gender and finance to energy and technology. We conduct our research through interviews, regulatory analysis, quantitative modelling and forecasting, and we display the results via interactive data visualisation tools. Through a global network of more than 350 analysts and contributors, we continuously assess and forecast political, economic and business conditions in more than 200 countries. For more information, visit http://www.eiu.com

About UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center
The WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is the first and largest data center providing quantitatively analyzable data on policies and laws in 197 countries and Beijing Platform signatories in a range of critical areas, including education, health, environment, poverty, families, adult labor, marriage, childhood, child labor, equal rights and discrimination, aging, disability and gender.

About Fathom Information Design
Fathom Information Design partners with clients to understand, express, and navigate complex data through visualizations, interactive tools, and software.  Fathom founder Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. Fry founded Fathom in 2010 and in 2011 he won the National Design Award for Interaction Design.  Based in Boston, Fathom’s recent projects include OpenIndia with the World Bank Group, Connected China with Reuters, and What the World Eats with National Geographic.  http://www.fathom.info

Video Source: Livestream

News Source: Clinton Foundation

CGI University – No Ceilings Project

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Screen Shot 2015-03-07 at 6.32.36 PMHillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative University event held at the University of Miami. Clinton was joined on stage by her daughter, Chelsea, and together they previewed a report that is going to be released Monday by a Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings Project. The report will highlight the advancement of women and girls over the last twenty years around the world in education, economic impact, and in leadership roles. The report will also call out areas of concern and areas of improvement.

A video from the event is available by CLICKING HERE.

Video Source: Livestream

News Source: CBS

Meeting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Monday, December 8, 2014

PX1197762453600710_3132009bHillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today as a part of their short visit to the United States. They met at a reception held at the official residence of the British Consul General, Danny Lopez. A number of wildlife charities were represented at the reception which was co-hosted by the Duke and Duchess’s Royal Foundation and the Clinton Foundation. Clinton (who recently became a grandmother) and the Duchess (who is five months pregnant) briefly spoke about the importance of child development. The Duke gave a brief speech about the black market for animal hides and ivory saying, “It’s easy to blame others for the problem – demand in South East Asia, not enough protection on the ground, and so on. But, if I may say, we could start with looking closer to home. Our own nations still have thriving black markets in these products, and we have to raise the game at home as well as abroad.”

News and Photo Source: The Telegraph

Community-Based Solutions: A No Ceilings Conversation

Saturday, November 15, 2014

image-2Hillary Rodham Clinton took part in a Clinton Foundation No Ceilings event on Saturday in Little Rock, Arkansas. Joined by daughter Chelsea Clinton, the event was was in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Bill Clinton Presidential Library and the  women’s rights speech given by Clinton in Beijing in 1995 (for the full text of Clinton’s 1995 speech, click here). At the event, Clinton and Hillary discussed the progress of women since the famous speech, the work of the Clinton Foundation, and the progress of the No Ceilings project.

The event was live streamed, but the video is no longer available. The full video will be posted when/if it is available.

News Source: Politico

Image Source: CTV News

Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky Welcome Daughter

Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky announced on Twitter their daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, was born this morning. The tweet was retweeted by grandparents Bill and Hillary Clinton. Congratulations to the Clinton and Mezvinsky familes!

UPDATE: Hillary Clinton has tweeted a photo:

CGI Annual Meeting: Aiming for the Moon and Beyond

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Screen Shot 2014-09-24 at 6.41.19 PM 1On the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton hosted the final session of the gathering entitled “Aiming for the Moon and Beyond.” The Clinton’s were joined by a number of of speakers including astronauts Cady Coleman and Reid Wiseman, X PRIZE Foundation Founder Peter H. Diamandis, and Graça Machel Trust and Foundation for Community Development Founder Graça Machel. The event focused on the future of CGI and a number of issues. Overall, it was a good way to wrap up the 10th annual meeting.

The full video from the event may be viewed by CLICKING HERE as we are unable to embed the video directly.

Video Source: CGI’s Livestream

CGI Annual Meeting: Equality for Girls & Women: 2034 instead of 2134?

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Screen Shot 2014-09-24 at 6.11.56 PMIn the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting, Hillary Rodham Clinton took part in two events. The first was a discussion entitled “Equality for Girls & Women: 2034 instead of 2134?,” which focused on the inequality of employment and education opportunities for women around the world. With the first panel moderated by The New York Times Editor, David Leonhardt, Clinton was joined on stage by Melinda Gates and the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. A second panel was then introduced to continue the discussion. The second panel was moderated by Katie Couric and included Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek, President of Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Leymah Gbowee, and CEO of American University of Afghanistan Nilofar Sakhi. There was also a short speech by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

The full video from the event may be viewed by CLICKING HERE as we are unable to embed the video directly.

In the time between the two panels’ discussions, Hillary was joined on stage by Chelsea Clinton to announce a new CGI initiative called CHARGE. CGI and its partners have pledged $600 million to assist 14 million girls between the ages of 11 and 16 with attending school. While this announcement is part of the video above, you may watch a video of the announcement only by CLICKING HERE.

News Source: ABC News

Video Source: CGI’s Livesteam

CGI Annual Meeting: Putting Education to Work

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Screen Shot 2014-09-23 at 6.09.44 PM 1Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared at the third day of scheduled discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. The discussion, “Putting Education to Work,” was in two parts. The first part was a panel which included Cisco CEO John Chambers, United Arab Emirates Minister of State Reem Al Hashimy, Education for Employment Alumna Nisreen Mitwally, and Mara Foundation Founder Ashish Thakkar. The group discussed the future of education in the United States.

For the second part of the discussion, Clinton took the stage after the panel to deliver the closing remarks. She talked about the future of education and how businesses in America need to invest in eduction as they go hand-in-hand. On the job training and education are both important to businesses, and Clinton announced that many business had committed to help CGI with their efforts.

The full video from the event may be viewed by CLICKING HERE as we are unable to embed the video directly.

ByQaEyKCUAA6cah.jpg-largeAt the end of the speech, Clinton was joined on stage by Chelsea Clinton to announce CGI’s progress in its efforts to protect the African Elephant and stop poaching, stop illegal trafficking, and stop the demand for elephant ivory. Hillary and Chelsea were also joined by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, President of the Gabonese Republic Ali Bongo Ondimba, and representatives from Vietnam, Zambia, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and the United States State Department. President Bongo spoke on behalf of the group. After the speech, the group was joined on stage by representatives of several wildlife foundations who have partnered with CGI to protect the elephant.

A separate video of announcement about CGI’s continued efforts to save the African Elephant is available by CLICKING HERE.

Tomorrow is the final day of CGI’s Annual Meeting, and Clinton is scheduled to take part in two sessions (and appear in one video):

8:45 – 10:30 AM – “Equality for Girls and Women: 2034 Instead of 2134″

Film – “The Science of Success: Investing in Babies’ Minds”

3:30 – 4:45 PM – “Aiming for the Moon and Beyond”

Tune in to the Livestream to watch all the events as they happen.

Video Source: CGI Livestream