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Women & Girls - Physical & Mental Health

Marketing - Media - Advertising - Dignity - Rights

 

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PANEL CONCEPT STATEMENT

 

WOMEN & GIRLS - PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH -

Marketing - Media - Advertising - Dignity - Human Rights

 

Fashion, cosmetics, beauty, and diet industries, and more, work hard to make females believe that our bodies and appearances are unacceptable and need constant improvement, and enhancements.

 

Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, beauty procedures, and diet aids +. These industries make huge profits promoting external beauty and desirability.

 

Women and girls worlwide experience physical and mental health issues from anorexia to depression, trying to measure up to unrealistic ideals that reinforce that perfectionism is the goal, and that being a whole and fulfilled girl or woman is not enough.

 

In the Human Rights dimension, women's rights and gender equality are impacted by the fixation on women's and girls' appearances, even the buying and selling of women online, prostitution, trafficking, racism, violence, power and patriarchy.

 

The goal of this Panel is to show how such marketing, media images, commercial manipulation of women's self-images and self esteem, are damaging to the dignity, respect, equality, and rights of women and girls all over the world. It is the hope that this Panel will present the serious realities of this social imagery and manipulation of women and girls, and the significant impact on their health, physical and mental, their rights, and their equality. Further, the Panel wishes to serve as a catalyst to further advocacy and actions for healthy, realistic images and non-discrimatory advertising of women and girls, and to promote corporate and media social responsibility for women's and girls' full dignity and human rights.

 

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