Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, Mary J Blige and Richard E Grant join Annie Lennox and Livia Firth to launch a Global International Women’s Day Initiative.
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women – while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender balance. As the women’s rights movement pushes forward, singer, songwriter and Human Rights activist Annie Lennox and the NGO she founded, The Circle, have partnered with Apple Music for a Global International Women’s Day initiative launched today.
To help her, Annie has drawn support from some of the biggest names in music, film and beyond, including Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Richard E Grant, Emeli Sande, Hozier, Farhan Akhtar, Richa Chadha, Eddie Izzard, Gwendoline Christie, Beverley Knight, Mary J Blige and our very own Livia Firth, to create a short film in support of Global Feminism, an umbrella term inclusive of all approaches to women’s equality. The short film aims to highlight the injustices still experienced by millions of women and girls the world over – from misogyny, rape and violence to pay disparity.
Watch the film in full: