What is International Day of the Girl Child?
International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated every year on October 11 and it was made to recognize how difficult it is to be a girl, and to stand for their human rights. The day was set up by United Nations in 2011 and focused on the girl as a child to celebrate the various potentials of a girl across the world fighting against threats, discrimination and other issues.
This day is celebrated to remind people to empower girls worldwide so that they can have a better future, education, better survival rates, better protection from child marriage and sexual assault and better health care services.
United Nations aims to help the girls who face disadvantage and discrimination on a daily basis and wants to highlight the struggle that they face.
This year the theme of International Girl Day is ‘Empower girls: before, during and after conflict’ which deals with issues like sexual and physical violence, child marriage, exploitation and trafficking. The motive of this day is not just to create awareness but also to understand how the victim girls live and what they need.
UNICEF also deals with problems like female genital mutilation where they have helped 130 million girls worldwide.
Child marriage is one of the key issues that girls have faced. There are approximately 700 million women who got married when they were not even 18 to men who were much older to them.
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