Raise
Your Voice To End Violence Against Girls
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International Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women
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Dear Human Rights Activists,
Please stand for women and girls
who are suffering from everyday violence against girls. Girls are not expected
here in this country. People expect a male child as a child not a girl child
because girls are symbol of problem, suffering and it creates millions of
problems for parents, family and community at the end for the country. Girl
child is popularly known as "Problem Child".
Birth of a child is a great
blessings for every family. Every parents become pleased when they beomce
parents. Becoming parents of a girl child is a matter of shame and so it is a
disaster from Almighty.
PHREB has conducted a survey among
850 families: mixed rich-poor-educated-uneducated families asking three
questions: Do you they prefare a male child or female child?
Why they do not expect a female
child?
What do they do after getting a
female child?
93% of women in reply said they
expect a male child because a son is a blessings from almighty for the parents
and country and a daughter is a problem. They said a daughter is a problem for
its family, community and states. They do not want to be ashmed so that they do
not want to be mother of a problem child. Being called a mother of
daughters is a matter of shocking and shame for 96% women we interviewed.
Pregnant mothers rush to the
religous imams for religous medicine for herself and her husband so that they
can get a son. When they get daughter instead of a son the mother and newly born
baby treated ferociously by the families. They do not see a doctor, care and
treatement. Because they all are burden.
In the recent months we have seen
stories of killing girls themselves because they are not treated as human being
by the family, community. They are pushed to the wall so that they have to do
only one thing is killed herself hanging on the roof. In last one year from
November 2005 to October 2006 11 girls committed suicide in only Chittagong
Metropolitan city of Bangladesh.
Three newly born babies were killed
by their own fathers in Cox's Bazar. Bably a beautiful girl was thrown acid by
her own father at the age of 6 month's old. A father had thrown acid on his 14
girls because they are girls.
We do not want to write more
because it is so pathetic and barbaric. We would appeal you to stand for women
and girls in every corner in this world. Because they are human being. Please
stand for girls right now from your position whereever you are. Please raise
your voice for girls' human rights.
Your input in our works will be
appreciable.
Promoting Human Rights and
Education in Bangladesh (PHREB)
House A/13, 3rd Floor, Road 1,
Block A
Chandgaon R/A
Chittagong 4212
Bangladesh