SunstarTV Bureau: The International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated on October 11 every year to mark significance of girls around the world. This year, the theme of International Day of the Girl Child is “Digital generation, our generation”.
In 2021, the United Nations (UN) will celebrate the day to amplify the diversity of tech trailblazers while simultaneously widening the pathways so that every girl, this generation of girls regardless of race, gender, language, ability, economic status and geographic origin lives their full potential.
Significance:
In 1995 at the World Conference on Women in Beijing countries unanimously adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing the rights of not only women but girls. The Beijing Declaration is the first to specifically call out girls’ rights.
On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.
The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.
Best Messages:
You are truly blessed if you have been gifted a girl child because she has the aura to make your heart and home a happy place.
Blessed are those parents who are gifted with a girl child who is a bundle of joy and a ray of hope.
Let us make this International Day of the Girls Child more meaningful by giving the girl child a safe world to live in.
Here’s to strong women: May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. Happy National Girl Child Day
An Educated Woman Has the Power to Educate the Whole Family. Empower the Girl Child! Happy National Girl Child Day
Best Quotes:
“A girl is innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot” – Alan Beck
“Be careful if you make a women cry because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved” – Matthew Henry
“I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women’s rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty” -Olivia Wilde
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim” – Nora Ephron
“A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give” – Laurel Atherton
“A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous. Full of beauty and forever beautiful, loving and caring and truly amazing” – Deanna Beisser
