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Global Us: Portraits of the stronger sex

August 8, 2025

What makes girls strong? Education! Why potatoes are political for a Peruvian scientist and how a female entrepreneur in Mali is greening the desert.

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The "Global Us" show logo is seen between a male head with curly hair (bottom) and a female head (top, pictured upside down) blowing up a blue balloon

Global Us — What connects us all

There are eight billion people on Earth and we are better connected than ever before. How can we make use of that? Global 3000 is now Global Us - because now, more than ever, we need to act together.

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