Project Everyone’s “Global Girls” campaign; photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images Reportage


Project Everyone’s “Global Girls” campaign; photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images Reportage


Project Everyone’s “Global Girls” campaign; photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images Reportage

What Women ‘Really Really Want’ in 2016

Last year, the United Nations adopted 17 Global Goals for alleviating poverty and climate change by 2030. This year, the organization Project Everyone, which was created to support the UN’s initiative, aims to specifically highlight the important issues facing women and girls around the world. To that end, the organization commissioned the director MJ Delaney to remake the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” music video, telling world leaders what girls and women “really really want” in 2016.

Reportage photographer Veronique de Viguerie joined the Project Everyone team in Cape Town, Mumbai and London to capture behind-the-scenes images of the video production and shoot portraits of the artists involved. The portraits show the women highlighting issues which are important to them, including quality education, an end to violence against women, healthcare, an end to child marriage and equal pay for equal work.

“Through my work in places such as Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan, I have seen firsthand the struggle for quality education, ending violence against women and girls and gender equality,” said Veronique de Viguerie. “I hope that my portraits, which show proud, powerful young women using their voices, will help this campaign reach the hearts and minds of the global public and galvanize change.”

The images are also available globally from today on the Getty Images platform, where they can be downloaded free of charge for editorial use, or licensed for commercial use by the company’s nearly one million customers in almost 200 countries.

Global Girls’ “Wannabe” video will launch in July, when it will call for people to share a picture of the issues important to them via the hashtag #WhatIReallyReallyWant. For more information on the Global Girls campaign, please visit globalgoals.org