Activate: The Global Citizen Movement

Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Becky G join Global Citizen to push world leaders to enact policy changes to help end extreme poverty around the globe. As Jackman prepares for the organization’s annual festival, Becky G travels to Mexico to amplify Global Citizen’s campaign to get companies to support women-owned businesses.

Artists and activists Common and Usher team up with Global Citizen and grassroots organizers as they attempt to achieve historic criminal justice reform by ending the use of cash bail in New York state.

Rachel Brosnahan joins Global Citizen and travels to the border of Peru to see what happens to children’s education during conflicts and natural disasters. After an emotional experience with displaced families, Brosnahan and Global Citizen return to the U.S., where they urge Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. to pledge millions to Education Cannot Wait, a global fund for education during crises.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas joins Global Citizen in its campaign to break down barriers to girls’ education. Meanwhile, Gayle King and Bonang Matheba rally tens of thousands of people to call on the South African government to commit $58 million toward ending “period poverty” and providing girls with the menstrual education and resources they need to stay in school and stay confident.

Pharrell joins Global Citizen’s push to solve the ocean plastic pollution crisis. Darren Criss travels to the Philippines to witness plastic’s impact on people living in extreme poverty and calls on citizens to urge their mayors to commit cities to zero-waste futures. Experts discuss the impact of plastic pollution in developing countries and the ways brands are solving the problem.

Uzo Aduba joins Global Citizen to rally millions around the globe to push for clean drinking water for the world’s most vulnerable people. They travel to Nigeria, where they urge governors to commit state funds to eradicate the contaminated water and open defecation crises.