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<p>Advancing gender equality and women's rights are a core part of the UK Government's
mission, and Global Britain's role as a force for good in the world, including fulfilling
every girl's right to 12 years of quality education. The Government remains steadfast
in its commitment to this agenda.</p><p>The new FCDO will continue to be a progressive
force for women and girls, including for their sexual and reproductive health and
rights and ensuring that their needs are central to our COVID-19 humanitarian response.
We will work closely with partners across HMG to leverage the best development, diplomatic,
defence and trade approaches to achieve maximum impact.</p><p>As part of the launch
of the new Department, we will refresh and build on existing strategies, as well as
develop new approaches, but we do not see the core ambitions of the Strategic Vision
for Gender Equality changing. The challenges of advancing girls' education, sexual
reproductive health and rights (SRHR), women's political empowerment, women's economic
empowerment and ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) are as acute now, if
not more so, as when we published the strategy in 2018.</p>
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