To enable girls to create and promote a worthy position in society

(Baonghean.vn) - That is the message of the 2017 International Day of the Girl Child, calling on policymakers and financiers to invest in developing the potential of girls, ensuring their rights to a fairer, more prosperous future.

Eight years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, aiming to “recognize the rights of girls and the challenges they face around the world.”

International Day of the Girl Child was first celebrated in 2012. Photo: Internet

According to the United Nations, providing a better life for girls is also a way to provide a better life for everyone. In fact, every year, women's income increases by 15-25%. Women invest more of their income in their families than men. A well-educated woman will marry later, have fewer children, have healthier children, and raise them better…

Girls born at the turn of the millennium have reached adolescence and the generation of girls born this year will be adolescents by 2030. The United Nations hopes that the International Day of the Girl will bring positive results.

Girls face many challenges. Photo: Internet

“Investing in girls’ rights today promises a more equitable and prosperous future, where half of humanity becomes an equal partner in tackling issues like climate change, political conflict, economic development, disease prevention and global sustainability.”

This year, with the message "Let's create all favorable conditions for girls to build and promote their worthy position in society", we call on policymakers and financiers to invest in promoting girls' potential, ensuring their rights to a fairer and more prosperous future.

Poverty stalks girls around the world. Pictured: A girl searches for food in a garbage dump in Islamabad, Pakistan.

A future where girls have equal rights, where half of humanity has the right to a safe, healthy and educated life, not only during their crucial formative years but also as they grow into women.

If cared for during adolescence, girls have the potential to change the world, becoming the workers, mothers, entrepreneurs, mentors, family leaders and political leaders of tomorrow.

Girls need to be invested in education. Photo: Internet

Girls everywhere have the right to live free from fear and violence. If we make progress for them, we make progress for all of society. In recent years, we have made significant progress in improving the lives of girls in their early years, including education, vaccination, play, health care, etc.

Launching the campaign “Because I am a girl” in Vietnam on the occasion of the first International Day of the Girl Child in 2012. Photo: VGP

Responding to this year's International Day of the Girl Child, the entire community respects the basic rights of girls, and fights against the difficulties, violence and crimes they face every day so that they can have a happy, healthy and independent life, contributing to improving the quality of the population and human resources, meeting the needs of industrialization and modernization of the country.

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