PM Narendra Modi calls for an end to gender discrimination in India

Oct 13, 2016, 00:47
PM Narendra Modi calls for an end to gender discrimination in India

The stories of the child brides are harrowing and heartbreaking. To all Canadians, and especially to girls and young women: "Happy International Day of the Girl". She dropped out of school, fled her new-but-physically-abusive husband after less than a year of marriage and then learned she was pregnant.

"I am nervous but very proud", Annisa told reporters before chairing a meeting with the new line-up at the ministry made up of 10 other teenage boys and girls. "It was full of sadness", Save the Children quoted her as saying. I wasn't happy. I was crying. I went to health centre when I was pregnant, but I wasn't able to go back. The lowest performing countries, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Somalia, are places beset by issues including war, high poverty rates and weak governments.

This inequality turns out to includes the areas such as the right to education, access to the education, proper nutrition, having equal rights, proper medical care and treatment, protection from discrimination, violence against women and end the most disgusting mentality of child marriage.

Save the Children believes that reaching girls is a critical component of ending early marriage, preventable maternal and child deaths and ensuring our collective future. In 2006, around 24.6 million females were married under the age of 18, according to the report.

Now is the time to fully exploit the power of data as one of the most critical tools for development and for protecting and promoting adolescent girls' rights.

Child marriage rates: these are 2015 estimates produced by the United Nations for girls under 15 by asking women aged 20-24 if they were married before that age.

This year's celebration is on the theme "Girls' Progress = Goals' Progress: What Counts for Girls". "Because of the kidnappings and rapes", Tasnim told Save the Children.

The report says girls also suffer during humanitarian crises such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone where the shutting down of schools led to an estimated 14,000 teen pregnancies.

The report explains that those living in conflict are often married off to secure a family against the risks of policy. In Nigeria, 40% of the poorest girls are married by 15, compared to 3% of the richest girls.

Save the Children runs a range of programmes that support the most disadvantaged girls across South Sudan.

Save the Children projects that some 950 million girls will be married by 2030, and it will top 1 billion before 2050.

Save the Children released the report 'Every Last Girl' for the International Day of the Girl Child on Tuesday. United Nations first picked the 11thOctober date to observe the day of young women and girls in 2012. She traveled to Morocco and Liberia with actresses Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay. For example, Nepal which was rocked by a devastating quake a year ago was revealed to have a relatively good middle school completion rate for girls, which, at 86 percent, is similar to Spain's.

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