Because You’re a Girl: Growing Up in the Commonwealth

This report by Plan UK and the Royal Commonwealth Society reveals that New Zealand is the best place in the Commonwealth to be born a girl, while Sierra Leone and Nigeria are among the worst. ‘Because You’re a Girl: Growing Up in the Commonwealth’, which has been produced to mark the Commonwealth’s 2011 theme ‘Women as agents of change’, compares how well girls and women are doing relative to boys and men in their country.