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International Girl Child Day 2024: Empowerment of Girls in the Future

International Girl Child Day 2024
International Girl Child Day 2024 has coined the term "Girls' Vision for the Future" for this important event. Education, equality and leadership stand at the forefront in activating all toward a better world and defense of girls' rights for a better future.

The International Girl Child Day is celebrated on October 11, 2024, reminding the world community about girls’ plight and empowerment. It was declared in 2011 by the United Nations General Assembly to create awareness concerning issues of education, discrimination, and gender inequality amongst other issues. Theme 2024: “Girls’ Vision for the Future”

Every theme is about unleashing the world’s 1.1 billion girls to unleash a fuller potential in education, leadership, and equal treatment.

There are many constraints that nearly every girl around the world faces while trying to fulfill her full potential, some of which include child labor, child marriage as well as limited access to healthcare and technology. Organizations such as UN Women are becoming agents of change by collaborating with other stakeholders in order to fulfill girls’ dreams of a better future. Listen to the girls and give them the opportunity to make a world where rights are guaranteed, voices loudly voiced-that’s the essence behind this year’s day.

What is International Girl Child Day Significant?

There is International Girl Child Day that directs the world’s attention to particular issues girls are facing across the globe and establishes their rights. From childhood, girls are discriminated upon based on gender, limited in education, healthcare facilities, and all opportunities for growth. For instance, 1 in 5 girls across the globe do not reach lower secondary education, UNICEF, and approximately 90% of girls from many low income countries lack access to the internet, which eventually opens that gap digitally. This day celebrates the fact that understanding the need to build an equitable society where girls can be valued and supported is needed. Protecting girls from abuse and exploitation is promoted through effective and sustainable development, especially by the Generation Equality Forum’s key objective of promoting gender equality.

Girls’ Vision for the Future: The 2024 Theme

International Girl Child Day 2024 theme, “Girls’ Vision for the Future,” focuses on tapping into creativity, intellect, and resilience in girls imagining their future.

Girls are already exercising leadership for social change, gender equality, and environmental sustainability, particularly from marginalized communities. In this regard, the theme is calling on governments, institutions, and civil society to listen to girls and collaborate with their visions. Says UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “girls have the courage, hope, and determination to build a better world.” Time is when global efforts would harmonize with their aspirations; in other words, make every girl reach her full potential.

Challenges Facing Girls Across the Globe

Though there is improvement in gender equality, girls are still hindered in many aspects at most corners of the globe. The important areas of concern are the following:

Education. Despite the fact that 40 percent of girls lack any type of upper secondary school degree, more hours are still expended by girls than boys in unpaid domestic work.

Digital Divide: 90% of girls in developing countries cannot access the internet, and therefore they are deprived of entering the digital world and even building any type of skills in any area of STEM-related expertise.

– Child Marriage and Violence: The risk for child marriage has reached a new level with COVID; 1 in 4 girls falls in the age group of 15-19 years and experiences physical or sexual violence at the hands of her partner.

– Healthcare: Teen girls are still at the top with 3 out of 4 new HIV infections, and therefore, there is a critical need for the right accesses and educations to proper healthcare.

 Education and the Girl Child Act in India

Education remains the basic solution to these inequalities.

Girl Child Act in India, for example, aims at protecting the rights of little girls. One of them is the free education and outlawing child marriage. The effort on the part of India in empowering girls through education as well as legislation falls into the larger efforts of a better world in enhancing the status of the girl child. Programs on equal opportunities for the girl child, technology access and leadership skills would, therefore, be so core to bringing the envisionment that girls would have for their future into realization.  FMA and Global Initiatives towards Girls

An example of this type of organization is the International Institute of Mary Help of Christians (IIMA), that runs projects in 97 countries in making girls stronger. The organization advocates girls’ rights through education and leadership training while working on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) activity works, such as providing girls with digital literacy, preventing child marriage, and stopping trafficking.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  1. Why do we celebrate International Girl Child Day?

It is celebrated to focus upon the issues girls have been facing, like inequality, discrimination, and violence, and to uplift the rights of girls and empower them.

  1. What are the 10 rights of a girl child?

Rights of a girl child: The rights of a girl child, among others include education, protection against abuse, health care, freedom from child marriage, participation in decision-making process and access to clean drinking water, among others.

  1. Who established National Girl Child Day?

National Girl Child Day, launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in India, 2008, draws attention to shrinking sex ratios and the need for girls in society.

The message, therefore, comes as empowering urging the world to recognize the potential of girls and support their aspirations toward a just future for all.

International Girl Child Day 2024, themed “Girls’ Vision for the Future”, reminds one of the potential contained within girls if they were afforded the appropriate chance to grow.

Organisations such as UN Women, and programs such as the Generation Equality Forum continue their efforts in shaping a better world for girls through education, equality, and access to leadership opportunities. Listen to girls; support their dreams; act on their behalf-for this alone will make a better and juster future for all.

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