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Girl Child in India
The opportunity to be born, opportunity to grow in a safe and secure environment,
opportunity to develop ones’ full potential are some of the major issues concerning
the girl children in India
Achieving gender
equality and empowering women is one of the important targets of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG). With only three years to go for achieving these goals,
many efforts are being made at the international and the national level. The United Nations Organisation
as declared “October 11” as the International Day for the Girl Child
since 2012. The day shall be served
every year. It is going to serve an important purpose of fetching the spotlight
on the girl child and their problems. This activity aims to promote girl’s rights
and highlight gender inequalities that exist between girls and boys. In 1995,
during the World conference on Women in Beijing, the Beijing Platform for
Action had resolved to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girl child
and to promote the rights of the girl child.
Further, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the international
commitment of the ‘World Fit for Children’ adopted by the UN General
Assembly’s Special Session on Children in 2002, underline the efforts of the international
community towards the growth and development of women and children.
