Empowering the girl child | | | | Thursday‚ 19 July 2012 00:00 | View Comments arai Kuvirimirwa Features Writer With sacrificing family resources to educate a girl child and a potential future leader still a big societal challenge‚ any effort to see the education of a girl is a huge boon. So when millions of dollars are poured into the effort‚ the impact cannot be overemphasised. The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)‚ introduced some few years back‚ has seen remarkable change of fortunes
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At least in India‚ the girl child has been a topic of discussions and debates for the past several decades but‚ even today‚ the position appears to remain unchanged. The girl was always an unwanted child‚ and was found killed at birth. With the advancement of Science and Technology this killing has only gone still further - for now the girl child is being killed even before birth. The present scenario in which the girl child is mercilessly killed even before birth‚ does not speak too well about
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YOUNGEST ENTREPRENEUR SUHAS GOPINATH INRODUCTION Mr. Suhas Gopinath‚ now aged 27‚ is a young Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder‚ CEO‚ and Chairman of Global Inc‚ an IT multinational company launched by him at the age of 14 at California‚ USA. Graduated in BE Information Science from the M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Information Technology. A flash back Few years ago Suhas was then a student of grade 8th.Computer was then unknown to him he accompanied his brother an engineering student to
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3.1 Reintegration of former female child soldiers The previous sections explained the conflict in Northern Uganda and the use of child soldiers by the LRA. Some of the children who were abducted fled immediately. Others were hold longer by the LRA‚ but managed to escape. Another group are the children who remain with the LRA until adulthood. There are only a few children who remain with the LRA and secure a position with considerable influence‚ such as a LRA leader (Drumbl‚ 2012). 80 percent of
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women. These numbers tell‚ ”quietly a terrible story of inequality and neglect leading to excess mortality of women" (Sen‚ 1990). In India‚ the widening gap in the ratio of girls to boys is clearly brought to light in the Census of 2001‚ confirming a trend that has been in place since 1901. This is most pronounced in the youngest age group‚ 0-6‚ thus indicating the scale of injustice as well as the long-term social and economic consequences implied. Ansley Coale (1991) also drew attention to unusually
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15th Sept :- I Can feel my heartbeat 14oct :- I have Little hands‚ legs head and a stomach. 13Nov :- Today i was in a Ultra scan WOW ! I m a girl 14Nov : I was DEAD! My mom and dad Killed me. WHY? Is it just Because I was a girl? People love to have a MOTHER ‚ A WIFE‚ and of course a GIRLFRIEND too Then WHY NOT A DAUGHTER? “SAVE GIRL CHILD” FEMALE FOETICIDE : AN EVIL IN INDIA HERE I AM BRINGING IN NOTICE AGAIN A VERY SERIOUS AND SINFUL
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of discrimination and violence against the girl child UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Florence‚ Italy‚ 25-28 September 2006 Girl child empowerment: A challenge for all Prepared by * Nicole Bidegain Ponte * The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations In the next lines I propose to integrate the agenda of sexual and reproductive rights with the ordinary life of girls and adolescents. I will put forward good practices
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important that I was having fun‚ and to not be discouraged because he knew that I was going to be the only girl. Sure enough‚ I was the only girl. My story is not unique because there are millions of girls‚ young ladies‚ and women in our country alone who take part in activities that society has deemed more appropriate for men‚ an example being Danica Patrick. Girls who like cars or watching football or girls want to be a computer programmer or engineer fall into this category. I was not a stranger to being
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In older days the birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ "A home without a daughter is like a body without soul". The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi‚ the Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati‚ the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that "No home is complete without a woman." Worst of all she is often killed before being born while
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showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number of girls per thousand boys) less than 850; by 2001 it was 51 districts. Child rights activist Dr. Sabu George says foeticide is the most extreme form of violence against women. "Today a girl is several times more likely to be eliminated before birth than die of various causes in the first year. Nature intended the womb to be a safe space. Today‚ doctors have made it the most unsafe space for the female child‚" he says. He believes that doctors
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