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    save the girl child

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    Save the Girl Child “Save the Girl Child” It is said that god created mothers because he could not be present everywhere. It is unbelieveable to realize that a god’s representative is countinuously killing someone beautiful even before she can come out and see the beauty of nature. In older days the birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ "A home without a daughter is like a body without soul". The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent

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    In older days the birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ "A home without a daughter is like a body without soul". The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi‚ the Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati‚ the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that "No home is complete without a woman." Worst of all she is often killed before being born while

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    Girl-Child Education

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    Right of a child to free‚ compulsory and universal primary education— Section 2 (15) of the Child Rights Act signed by 16 states in Nigeria) “Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.” — Section 29 (4b) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Social media was awash last weekend with news that the Senate had signed a ‘child marriage act’ into law‚ legalizing marriage for girls under the age of 18. Although lawmakers have corrected this notion‚ saying that the section stated above only

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    Empowerment on Girl Child

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    Empowering the girl child | | | | Thursday‚ 19 July 2012 00:00 | View Comments arai Kuvirimirwa Features Writer With sacrificing family resources to educate a girl child and a potential future leader still a big societal challenge‚ any effort to see the education of a girl is a huge boon. So when millions of dollars are poured into the effort‚ the impact cannot be overemphasised. The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)‚ introduced some few years back‚ has seen remarkable change of fortunes

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    Save Girl Child

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    Spreading like a virus A recent media workshop on the issue of sex selection and female foeticide brought home the extent of the problem. Held in Agra in February‚ the workshop was organised by UNICEF‚ Business Community Foundation‚ and the Centre for Advocacy and Research. Doctors‚ social scientists‚ researchers‚ activists‚ bureaucrats‚ journalists told their stories of what they were doing to fight the problem. If the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number

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    Educating Girl Child

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    Education is the birth right of every child including the girl child. For the success of a person whether man or woman‚ education plays an important role. The poverty and illiteracy among the people is also big reason for not sending the girls to schools and colleges. Parents feel that the education of girls is a wastage as they will go to their husbands after marriage and more dowry have to be paid for a more educated girl. Women’s social conditions started deteriorating with the passage of

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    Save Girl Child

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    15th Sept :- I Can feel my heartbeat 14oct :- I have Little hands‚ legs head and a stomach. 13Nov :- Today i was in a Ultra scan WOW ! I m a girl 14Nov : I was DEAD! My mom and dad Killed me. WHY? Is it just Because I was a girl? People love to have a MOTHER ‚ A WIFE‚ and of course a GIRLFRIEND too Then WHY NOT A DAUGHTER? “SAVE GIRL CHILD” FEMALE FOETICIDE : AN EVIL IN INDIA HERE I AM BRINGING IN NOTICE AGAIN A VERY SERIOUS AND SINFUL

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    Fight Like A Girl Analysis

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    Fight Like a Girl This essay will offer a feminist analysis of sexism in superhero comic books‚ a topic I explore in my recent podcast on female representation in comics. I will “examine how comic books reinforce or undermine the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and psychological oppression of women” As part of my research‚ I conducted a very unscientific survey where I asked the question‚ “Is there sexism in superhero comic books?" Not surprisingly most women I asked believed comic books are sexist

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    Girl Child Soldiers

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    3.1 Reintegration of former female child soldiers The previous sections explained the conflict in Northern Uganda and the use of child soldiers by the LRA. Some of the children who were abducted fled immediately. Others were hold longer by the LRA‚ but managed to escape. Another group are the children who remain with the LRA until adulthood. There are only a few children who remain with the LRA and secure a position with considerable influence‚ such as a LRA leader (Drumbl‚ 2012). 80 percent of

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    Black Men in America

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    Black Men in America I am writing about black men in America. Today’s black men have a struggle. They are struggling with colored men and stereo-type. The one thing about black men in America is that they are fighters. They won’t give up without a fight. They will try to prevail in anything that they want do. Black men in America are struggling with being colored. They have to be the best at all they do without imitating the white man. They have to play it smart in everything. If a black

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