When a child completes eight years her world changes. Life pushes her in many directions, which way will depend on the support they receive and the ability to choose their own future. In some places of the world, a child has infinite possibilities in front of him and begins to make important choices for when they will be adult. But in other parts of the world the horizon shrinks. Entrance into puberty, a combination of factors and discrimination can impede his path. Only 8 years there are girls forced to marry, forced to leave school due to early pregnancies. Considered private property and used as a commodity to sell or buy.
The United Nations celebrates the World Day of girls and girls but there is little to celebrate since the ratio of Terre des Hommes presented today at the Senate, in which emerges a horizon still too full of pain, violence and conditions of inferiority, not only in the rest of the world, but also in Europe. For example, it calculates a dramatic increase in child pornography over the past five years amounted to + 543%. 81% of cases the victims are girls. Not only. There was an increase of 148% for sexual acts with children under 14, or under 16 years old in the case of close relatives and carers: in absolute numbers were 411 victims in 2015, 78% of females. Among the first enemies of boys and girls emerge peers.
According to the report of UNICEF on child labor, the girls between 5 and 14 are occupied 40 percent more of their time in housework and in the collection of water and firewood, than boys. A valuable time that could be used to study, to play, to be what they are, just girls. Also dramatic numbers that relate to child brides, with all that that entails, in the world today there are over 700 million women who have married in juvenile age and who have had to give up on having normal growth, physical and mental, every year 15 million marriages protagonist is a minor; one out of three is a child under 15 years. They often had to deal with domestic violence and early pregnancies. At least 70 thousand girls aged between 15 and 19 years - emphasizes UNICEF - die each year due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Girls under 15 are five times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than women between 20 and 29 years.
Based on this situation what is the best place to live for little girls? According to the analysis "Every Last Girl: free to live, free to learn, free from harm" published by Save the Children would be Sweden, followed by Finland and Norway, while the worst is Niger.
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