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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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