According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), adolescence is a critical period that can determine the trajectory of girls’ lives.It is a stage at which key investments and support can set girls on a path toward empowerment, or when discrimination, recurrent constraints, harmful practices, and violence can send them down a negative spirals.
This come with lifelong consequences, not just for themselves, but for societies and future generations.However, the girl-child all over the world has encountered some forms of challenges as a result of cultural, religious, political and social beliefs.These challenges, quite naturally, in some cases, have made the girl-child an ‘endangered’ specie.
Girls are leaders. Girls are change-makers. Girls are driving good and growth around the world. They are a fundamental source of transformational change for gender equality, and technology is a crucial tool to support their work, activism and leadership.
Not all students can continue their education online while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
UN Women is joining other UN agencies, civil society, and girls around the world to celebrate International Day of the Girl Child under the theme “Digital generation. Our generation.” Together, we’re calling for equal access to the internet and digital devices for girls’ and targeted investments to facilitate opportunities for girls’ to safely and meaningfully access, use, lead and design technology.
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