WUNRN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsvklXhYaE
GIRL RISING – FILM – THE POWER OF EDUCATION TO CHANGE A
GIRL – AND THE WORLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9hCcl6N1WU
GIRL RISING – PERU – THE STORY & IMPORTANCE OF
EDUCATION FOR SENNA IN PERU
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RIGHTS OF GIRLS – POLITICALLY CHARGED ISSUES, & IN
THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT GOALS – EDUCATION FOR GIRLS VITAL
By Barbara Crossette for PassBlue – September 8, 2015
EXCERPT: As the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals
approaches in late September, there is relatively wide, though not universal,
agreement that this time more serious commitments could lead to more meaningful
action for women. The question is how much the lives of the millions of
poorest, most powerless minor-age girls will change.
Girls have special needs and much greater challenges than boys
in many developing societies. Millions of girls will continue to be forced into
early marriages and/or subjected to genital mutilation even though the SDGs
explicitly call for an end to these practices. Millions of girls are also not
going to school. Public policy and a greater commitment of governments to end
the conditions that keep girls out of school are critical to changing their
lives.
Carol Bellamy, who was an outspoken executive director of UNICEF
from 1995 to 2005, welcomes the success of the MDGs in helping a majority of
the world’s girls complete primary education, but she cautions that this might
be the easy part.
“The children we are now targeting are the very hardest to
reach, and the costs of their inclusion are going to be higher than average,” Bellamy
wrote as part of the book, “Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance
Around the World,” edited by Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern.
Those left behind by wider progress on education are,
overwhelmingly, the most marginalized girls — the poorest and most exploited,” according
to Bellamy, Chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education. “Very often,
disadvantage breeds disadvantage, with girls who are out of school more
vulnerable to trafficking and other forms of exploitation, from commercial sex
work to hazardous child labor.” Girls should be a good investment, as
contributors to family and national economies.
“Why then so much entrenched resistance, why so many hurdles?” Bellamy asks, saying that the “elephant in the room” is politics. “Gender equity is intensely political.” Where the political meets the intensely personal are classrooms in which girls fear and often suffer sexual abuse from teachers, and in schoolyards where there are no toilet stalls to provide privacy, particularly with the onset of puberty and menstruation, a life passage that drives large numbers of girls out of education in Asia and Africa…….