Global Citizen Festival 2022: Mariah Carey, Metallica, More to Join This Fight

The Global Citizen announced the 2022 Global Citizen Festival: Take Action NOW on Aug 11. It is a worldwide campaign calling on world leaders to take action toward ending extreme poverty.

The festival will commence onSept. 24, and occur simultaneously in Central Park in New York City and Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, presented by Citi and Cisco and Harith General Partners, respectively.

The 2022 Global Citizen Festival: Take Action NOW can be watched through global broadcasts and live streams. ABC, ABC News Live, FX, iHeartRadio, TimesLIVE, and Hulu will broadcast the festival, as well as through Twitter, YouTube, and more.

Global Citizen also announced the exciting lineup for the festival. The heavy metal band Metallica, Mariah Carey, Charlie Puth, the Jonas Brothers, Rosalia, Måneskin, and Mickey Guyton are headlining the global festival in New York. Global Citizen ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas will host the festival in New York.

Set to perform at the Ghana stage are SZA, H.E.R., Stormzy, Usher, Gyakie, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, and TEMS. Global

According to reports, the other performers for the twin festivals will be announced in the future.

This will be a free ticketed event. Fans who wish to watch the festival must embody being a Global Citizen by downloading the Global Citizen app or visiting their website and joining the efforts to earn points to get free tickets to the twin festivals.

The Goal: 'We Refuse to Just Stand By and Watch"

This marks the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival. They have been organizing such events to alleviate problems around the world.

Global Citizen recognizes that their request is a tall order, that includes world leaders investing $600 million into the future of women and girls, $500 million to help African farmers respond to the global food crisis, and "close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall."

The festival will take place ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in September and the G20 Summit and COP27 in November. Global Citizen hopes this is a way to "End Extreme Poverty NOW."

"Decades of systemic and political failures have led humanity into the midst of converging and rapidly deteriorating crises - climate, hunger, health, war and conflict," said Hugh Evans, Co-Founder, and CEO of Global Citizen.

"We refuse to just stand by and watch [...] We refuse to accept the starvation of multitudes when solutions are readily at hand. We demand a secure future for girls everywhere. We demand governments keep their promises on climate funding. We demand relief from debts unjustly crushing economies. And we demand action NOW, while there's still time to change our collective trajectory."