We love this day because it's a chance to celebrate the remarkable girls in the world who are making a difference, who have made great achievements and have overcome incredible odds just to get where they are today.
To mark the day, we've compiled some of our favorite profiles of girls and women from NPR's archives, from Boko Haram survivors on their first visit to New York City to a Pakistani squash champ who dressed as a boy just so she could play sports.
We hope they inspire you as much as they inspire us.
— Malaka Gharib, NPR's deputy editor, global health and development coverage
Hauwa and Ya Kaka aren't typical teens. This year they came to the U.S. to speak up for the thousands of abductees still being held. But they also made time for tourist fun.
For much of her life, Maria Toorpakai has been threatened by the Taliban. Now the subject of a PBS documentary, she tells how she found the courage to keep playing sports.
Angeline Murimirwa is lauded as one of the world's most influential women for her work with a charity that gives scholarships to poor girls in Africa. She herself was once one of those girls.
When she was a Brownie, Sylvia Acevedo was inspired to earn her science badge. In her new memoir, the Girl Scouts CEO says this experience led directly to her career at NASA.
The young leaders of Girl Up were in Washington, D.C., this summer to network and lobby Congress on gender issues. We asked them about their role models, what they'd like to change and why it's important for boys to join the movement.
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