The girl-child: a young female child.
* G -GENUINE
* I - INTELLECTUAL
* R - RESPECTED
* L - LUCKY
Empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality is crucial to accelerating sustainable development. Ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right, but it also has a multiplier effect across all other development areas.
These rights include the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn a fair and equal wage. As the now-famous saying goes, “women's rights are human rights.” That is to say, women are entitled to all of these rights.
Did you know?
Worldwide, nearly 1 in 4 girls aged 15–19 years is neither employed nor in education or training compared to 1 in 10 boys of the same age. By 2021 around 435 million women and girls will be living on less than $1.90 a day — including 47 million pushed into poverty as a result of COVID-19.
1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence. Emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence against women and girls (VAWG), and particularly domestic violence, has INTENSIFIED. Research has it that thousands of girls and young women have shared their stories of harassment and violence which provided a never-before seen glimpse of what happens to them in their cities and the impact this has on their lives. Like we see so many examples during lock down. This calls for specific actions to allow girls and young women to live without experiencing fear or discrimination on our streets.
At least 60% of countries still discriminate against daughters’ rights to inherit land and non-land assets in either law or practice.
Today’s more than 1.1 billion girls are poised to take on the future. Every day, girls are breaking boundaries and barriers, tackling issues like child marriage, education inequality, violence, climate justice, and inequitable access to healthcare. Girls are proving they are unstoppable.
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