{"id":134884,"date":"2017-01-11T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?post_type=one_press&amp;p=134884"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:22:54","slug":"tillerson-commits-to-continuing-womens-empowerment-programs-at-state","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/tillerson-commits-to-continuing-womens-empowerment-programs-at-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson commits to continuing women\u2019s empowerment programs at State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ONE applauds commitment to game-changing programs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Answering a question from Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President-elect Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, committed to continuing programs inside the State Department to empower girls and women in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONE\u2019s executive director for North America, Tom Hart, said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cThe ONE Campaign was pleased to hear Rex Tillerson\u2019s commitment to continuing the State Department\u2019s programs aimed at empowering girls and women in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cGirls and women living in extreme poverty have it harder than boys and men, and we\u2019re not going to be able to end extreme poverty without confronting the ways poverty is different for them. In too many countries, being born poor and female means a life sentence of inequality, oppression and poverty \u2013 and in many cases, it\u2019s also a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cHalf a billion women still cannot read, 62 million girls are denied an education, and 155 countries still have laws that discriminate against women. Girls account for 75 percent of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40 percent of women on the continent suffer from anemia, which causes 20 percent of maternal deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201cAnd while girls and women are hit hardest, as Mr. Tillerson said, they are actually key to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty. 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