platform to bring awareness. mental health support can enable refugees and many others who have been victims to conflict, to seek justice, to provide closure and healing. when i was forced to flee my home, she gave me hope to move forward. you couldn t have a better ambassador in the whole world than demi lovato. she s absolutely remarkable, but on a day to day level, she wants to use her passion to create change in the world, which when you meet someone like her who wants to change the world, i have no doubt that she will. her compassion to help people struggling with mental health issues has taken her around the globe with hugh evans and global citizen. she supports the change sthept to bring about. hugh, tell me about global silt zen. it s wanted just a concert in new york anymore. you work year-round. and what s the goal? the great news is that when i was born in 1983, 52% of the
in terms of how p connected people do feel to things that are happening in other parts of the war? i just noticed that during the egyptian revolution we were watching it in this crazy way right. whether it s iraq but there s also a lot of unintended consequences, right. we saw what happened with the ar an spring and it looked like it was going to be something special and it went the other way. we re in one decade of all this of social societal thing. there s going to be a learning curve and we re going to have to adapt and that s what we re doing right now. mark cuban. thanks for having me, guys. thank you very much. always great to see you. let s see what you have to say on twitter. let s hear more about global citizen founder hugh evans and his fascinating story, some of which you heard at the top of the hour. it s hard to believe that just five years ago he and his team were struggling to turn their vision into a reality. hugh evans. there hadn t been a concert
so we need both. there are a loft kit of kids ou there. i can give the example myself. if you don t have health you don t have the strength to go to the school. one of my dreams is to make sure, before health and education, make sure the kids have health and then they re going to have access to have a great education. with all the work the global citizen be doing. it strikes me, talking about global citizen appeal to the rest of the world. what s it like as the league gets more international, people from all sorts of different countries are mixing with each other, talking with each other. do you find you have a lot of common ground? yes. with everything the league, the nba be doing. one comment is giving back. that s why we have the nba care. and the league be going all over the place, not only for
in 2015 global citizen made a firm commitment to the sustainable development goals. america needs sustainable development right here at home to reduce income inequality, ensure health care for all, and protect our country and the world from more climate disasters. it s time, ladies and gentlemen, we adopt america s goals for 2030 to get our country back on track and to end the stupid wars. [ cheers and applause ] i am honored to introduce to you a great leader in the cause of sustainable development and peace, the foreign minister of the republic of slovakia and the new president of the united nations general assembly. miroslav lacjak. hello global citizens. this is my daughter laura.
the congo. how hard is it to try to create any kind of medical infrastructure in the midst of it s hard. it s not easy. it s hard because at some point we had a war in congo. you know, the system is still it s getting better but it s still slow. you know how in africa everything is going. we do the best we can. today we with global citizen i am sure we re going to keep working and keep trying to make things work out there. you started the foundation and that focuses on vaccination? yes. the serge ibaka foundation is focusing on health and education. that s the two most important in africa in general because without health you cannot go in school to learn education.