World international Day of the Girl
In 2011, as the result of youth advocacy around the world, the United Nations declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child. This day which has been celebrated worldwide ever since her declaration is aimed at investing in the Girl Child the necessary condiments that makes up her being in all ramifications ranging from gender balance, rights to heard, provision of quality health and education for all among other.
According to a new report released by the Save the Children group international, it reveals some shocking statistics of the negative plights towards the girl child in recent times. In the reports, Child marriage can trigger a cycle of disadvantage across every part of a girl’s life. it further explains that Conflict, poverty and humanitarian crises are seen as major factors that leave girls exposed to child marriage.
During the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the closure of schools and lack of protection for girls contributed to a sharp rise in teenage pregnancy: it is estimated that more than 14,000 teenage girls became pregnant during the outbreak, including 11,000 who were in school prior to the crisis.
"More than 700 million women in the world married before their 18th birthday and one out of three of them married before they were 15".
The reports which explains the hard lifestyle and torments experienced by the Girl child indicates the physical torture which includes sexual abusive treatment and lack of good quality structure among some other factors that makes them befitting enough as a valued personality in the society. According to the study, "2.6 billion girls and women live in countries where marital rape is not explicitly criminalized".
Physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence can take place at home, in schools or within communities; it is rooted in discrimination and exclusion.
The report, called Every Last Girl, ranks countries based on the hardest place to be a girl based on schooling, child marriage, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and the number of women in parliament. Every Last Child campaign has identified three Guarantees – of Fair finance, Equal treatment and Accountability – that governments must make to reach excluded children.
"An estimated 70,000 adolescent girls die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Every year 2.5 million girls under 16 give birth"
In Tanzania, 37% of women aged 20–24 were married before age 18. In rural areas, some girls marry as young as 11 years old. Tanzania also has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world.
Of the 21 million victims of forced labour around the world, just over a quarter (26%) are children. Girls are disproportionately affected, particularly by forced sexual exploitation.
“I was given to a husband at 12. I wasn’t happy to get married at that age, but my father said there was nobody to look after me since my mum wasn’t around. I wasn’t happy. I was crying. I wasn’t able to get used to what marriage was". Explained an Ethiopian Forced bride.
“When I became pregnant my husband left me. When I had my baby I didn’t go to a health centre, I gave birth at home. I went to health center when I was pregnant, but I wasn’t able to go back. Labour took me six days. Tamera (alias name) concluded.
See Parts of her findings below;
Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. In developing countries one in three girls is married before the age of 18 and one in nine before the age of 15.
• In Dominican Republic 37% of women aged 20–24 are married before 18 years.
• In most countries, girls from poor families are more likely to be married early than their richer peers. In Nigeria, 40% of the poorest girls are married by age 15 compared to 3% of the richest girls.
• Girls in particular regions of some countries are disproportionately affected. In Ethiopia more than half of girls in the Amhara, BenishangulGumuz and Afar regions marry by age 18 compared to 12% in Addis Ababa.
• The majority of the 25 countries with the highest rates of child marriage are considered fragile states or at high risk of natural disaster
According to a new report released by the Save the Children group international, it reveals some shocking statistics of the negative plights towards the girl child in recent times. In the reports, Child marriage can trigger a cycle of disadvantage across every part of a girl’s life. it further explains that Conflict, poverty and humanitarian crises are seen as major factors that leave girls exposed to child marriage.
During the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the closure of schools and lack of protection for girls contributed to a sharp rise in teenage pregnancy: it is estimated that more than 14,000 teenage girls became pregnant during the outbreak, including 11,000 who were in school prior to the crisis.
"More than 700 million women in the world married before their 18th birthday and one out of three of them married before they were 15".
The reports which explains the hard lifestyle and torments experienced by the Girl child indicates the physical torture which includes sexual abusive treatment and lack of good quality structure among some other factors that makes them befitting enough as a valued personality in the society. According to the study, "2.6 billion girls and women live in countries where marital rape is not explicitly criminalized".
Physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence can take place at home, in schools or within communities; it is rooted in discrimination and exclusion.
The report, called Every Last Girl, ranks countries based on the hardest place to be a girl based on schooling, child marriage, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and the number of women in parliament. Every Last Child campaign has identified three Guarantees – of Fair finance, Equal treatment and Accountability – that governments must make to reach excluded children.
"An estimated 70,000 adolescent girls die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Every year 2.5 million girls under 16 give birth"
In Tanzania, 37% of women aged 20–24 were married before age 18. In rural areas, some girls marry as young as 11 years old. Tanzania also has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world.
Of the 21 million victims of forced labour around the world, just over a quarter (26%) are children. Girls are disproportionately affected, particularly by forced sexual exploitation.
“I was given to a husband at 12. I wasn’t happy to get married at that age, but my father said there was nobody to look after me since my mum wasn’t around. I wasn’t happy. I was crying. I wasn’t able to get used to what marriage was". Explained an Ethiopian Forced bride.
“When I became pregnant my husband left me. When I had my baby I didn’t go to a health centre, I gave birth at home. I went to health center when I was pregnant, but I wasn’t able to go back. Labour took me six days. Tamera (alias name) concluded.
See Parts of her findings below;
Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. In developing countries one in three girls is married before the age of 18 and one in nine before the age of 15.
• In Dominican Republic 37% of women aged 20–24 are married before 18 years.
• In most countries, girls from poor families are more likely to be married early than their richer peers. In Nigeria, 40% of the poorest girls are married by age 15 compared to 3% of the richest girls.
• Girls in particular regions of some countries are disproportionately affected. In Ethiopia more than half of girls in the Amhara, BenishangulGumuz and Afar regions marry by age 18 compared to 12% in Addis Ababa.
• The majority of the 25 countries with the highest rates of child marriage are considered fragile states or at high risk of natural disaster
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