October 11: International Girl's Day
Discrimination and violence against girls in different parts of the world…
They forced the UN to declare 11 October as International Girl Day (International Day of Girl Child). It was established by a decision of the UN General Assembly on December 19 2011 and was celebrated for the first time in 2012.
The first World Girl's Day focused on efforts to end child marriage, a fundamental human rights violation that affects all aspects of a girl 's life.
However, it is also pillegal or unpaid work in developing countries, exclusion from education, violence and abuse, genital mutilation that demonstrates the terrible inequality and degradation of their sex, with traumatic consequences that accompany them in adulthood.
For example in India…
They are less likely to seek medical help for a sick baby if they are a girl than if they are a boy. Unfortunately, most female infants die in the first month after birth compared to males, according to an earlier UN statement. India offers free medical care for newborns at its more than 700 state-run children's hospitals. But almost 60% of newborns admitted to these hospitals were boys, according to data gathered last year by Unicef.
"Girls have the advantage of being stronger biologically, but unfortunately they are extremely vulnerable socially," said Jasmine Ali Huck, a spokeswoman for the company. Unicef in India. «Discrimination begins even before it is born"He stressed.
The young Indian Baltjnder Kaur, who lives and works in Cyprus for the last 5 years, reports in ant1ıwo:
"In my country the girls - especially those who live in villages - have less value in society. Unfortunately, pall parents in India want to have boys because daughters are considered a burden because families have to pay dowry when they marry them. Apart from my country, I know that girls also suffer a lot from: Somalia, Guinea, Djibouti, Egypt, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
I hope that at some point everything will change and that girls all over the world will have equal rights. To be educated and to be able to realize all their dreams ".
Surely we must all pay special attention to the rights of girls around the world.
Source: ant1iwo.com