It all starts off in India, where about ten million girls have been killed in more than twenty years. India’s Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, claims that “two thousand girls are killed in India every day, with many slain just before or after birth”. It has also been found by the British medical journal, the Lancet, that about twelve million Indian girls have been aborted since 1981. Recently, a one-day old baby girl was found in a forest; she was bleeding heavily from her nose and mouth, wrapped in cloth and halfway buried within the dirt ground. The police had inferred that the reason she was abandoned was in fact due to her gender; she was a girl and her family did not want her. Millions of girls are neglected throughout …show more content…
The Invisible Girl Project is a non-profit organization based out of the United States, and “raises global awareness concerning the loss of female lives in India, pursues justice for the lives lost, and assists Indian organizations in rescue for Indian girls”. The IGP tends to rescue baby girls which have been abandoned and have the potential of being trafficked. IGP also teaches pregnant women the importance of baby girls, and fights for justice if a baby girl has been killed. IGP also believes in spreading awareness of the issue, and is doing its best to help the future baby girls of India. Another project, The Mother and Child Welfare Project, helps save infant girls who have the potential of being killed in the state of Tamil Nadu. Founder Valli Annamalai claims that a total of one hundred forty six babies have been dropped off from 1991 to 1999; since 2001, no infant has been abandoned or killed within the region. A lady named Rathinam claims that she was once sent to a family to give a newborn girl poisonous milk; after persuading a midwife to hand the baby to her, Rathinam fled with the newborn and ended up giving her real milk instead. She now has become a part of Annamalai’s project and saves hundreds of girls within the
Dena Davis in the 5th chapter of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures” explores the global attitudes, policies, and morality towards determination of sex. She begins with presenting empirical evidence of some preferences held in countries such as India or China where there is a clear desire for male children. This inclination is so deeply held that mothers can be socially and physically harmed when, by pure biological chance, they fail to produce a male child. Davis and others allow sex selection in these cases, purely in the interest of harm reduction of mothers and their daughters born into such a situation. This example is contrasted with so-called “western” societies, where the preference
The birth of a child is usually a wonderful and priceless occasion. However, on June 5, 2015, an eleven-year-old girl gave birth to a newborn girl. Approximately a year before she gave birth, her 40-year-old father repeatedly sexually assaulted her. In this case, the unprepared eleven-year-old child decided to have the baby. This is a prime example that illustrates that the right to abortion should always be vested in the woman.
Passage 1: “Nor did I think of Mary as a ‘friend’; she was something more-a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I dared not face” (258). - Narrator
There is a group of people in the world today who are more persecuted than anyone else, but they are girls. Being born a girl means you are, more likely to be subjected to violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other group on the planet. The documentary, I am a girl, directed by Rebecca Barry paints a picture of the reality of what it mean to be a girl in the twenty-first-century. I am a girl introduces us to six young women from all over the world. Katie is a wealthy, middle-class student from Australia getting ready for the exam, suffers from depression. Kimsey is a sex worker from Cambodia who supports her entire family. Manu is a Papua New Guinea villager whose unplanned pregnancy has put her in deep conflict with her traditional
The impacts socially of the gendercide include women being married younger and younger due to the lack of suitable age females. This young marriage and the pressures on the young girls to provide families causes them to miscarriages and create harm to their underdeveloped bodies. In addition to younger marriages, high rates of prostitution become a problem. Most girls will be stolen and sold into sex trafficking. The lack of females causes male tensions to be high with no female perspective to calm down all the male testosterone in the environment. With no females to marry and love, they turn to illegal practices to satisfy their desires. The marriage of such young females also hurts their opportunity to grow and develop as women in society. They lose their chance for education, and they settle down to simply raise children. This also
The Liberty Paint Factory in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man provides the setting for a very significant chain of events in the novel. In addition, it provides many symbols which will influence a reader's interpretation. Some of those symbols are associated with the structure itself, with Mr. Kimbro, and with Mr. Lucius Brockway.
According to the International Center for Research on Women, one-third of the girls under eighteen years old are married in developing countries, and one-ninth of them are married before fifteen years old. Other research and statistics have pointed out that often times these young girls, some who haven’t even reached puberty, are sold off to older men, who typically abuse and/or rape them, because the parents of these girls want to rid themselves of this burden of having to raise and pay for them. Many families who participate in arranged marriages with these child brides are poor and can’t afford to pay for food, clothing, education, etc. for these girls, so instead they give their daughters away to other families who will “take care” of them. Over time, however, many people are starting to question the ethics of arranged and forced marriages with child brides.
Everyone deserves an education, but for some in the developing world, especially girls, it is hard to even get into a classroom, due to the opposition from those who believe a girl 's place is in the home, not the classroom. The 2013 documentary Girl Rising by Richard E. Robbins states, “There are 33 million less girls in primary school worldwide than boys.” Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls varying in ages throughout the developing world who only want to learn or where school saved their lives. Richard E. Robbins the director of the film, uses famous celebrities to tell these stories in hope to reach people all over the world in order to raise awareness and money to girls’ educations worldwide. Mr. Robbins film produces a concerned or worried tone throughout the documentary which intrigued the viewer to pay full attention to the film. Mr. Robbins uses lots of textual strategies in the form of statistics and interesting facts, as well as audio strategies such as the celebrity
The Many Themes of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison achieved international fame with his first novel, Invisible Man. Ellison's Invisible Man is a novel that deals with many different social and mental themes and uses many different symbols and metaphors. The narrator of the novel is not only a black man, but also a complex American searching for the reality of existence in a technological society that is characterized by swift change (Weinberg 1197). The story of Invisible Man is a series of experiences through which its naive hero learns, to his disillusion and horror, the ways of the world. The novel is one that captures the whole of the American experience.
It is saddening to see humans of the female gender, who find themselves in a situation that requires introducing a new life into the world; to abort such a precious gift. Many may wonder how these poor, innocent, unborn children are then discarded after the abortion procedure. One cannot fathom the reason of these gruesome murders that happens within these medical facilities. Babies are disposed in the red waste bins of these facilities, and later incinerated. Some may either be flushed down garbage disposals or even be sold off for research purposes. The issue of abortion is not just a social one, but also a human rights issue among the unborn children. I believe if the human rights of these children has been violated, then all other rights of humans are certainly meaningless.
In line with Let Girls Learn, the #62milliongirls campaign aims
By removing men, it assumes that women who have given birth are more likely to have a ‘disturbance of the mind’. It becomes socially preferable to assume that infanticide is due to a mental instability rather than giving women agency and noting that killing a child is seen as a choice due to societal pressures such as shame. Thus, the exclusion of men reflects that female hysteria is alive and embedded in Infanticide Acts (Motz, 2010, as cited in Friedman, Cavney & Resnick, 2012). Feminists criticise that provisions on Infanticide actually pathologise childbirth and hence women, as by excluding men from the provision, though it does provide a more lenient sentence, it denies women the same level of agency that is credited to men (Friedman & Resnick,
Since a very young age, girls are sidelined and denied access to these resources. As every woman, they are supposed to do the hard work while boys have a good education. In the same way, they received less food than a boy after doing all the hard work. For instance, a young girl is seen carrying a heavy pint of water for the family that makes her almost fall. however, she continues and no one men is coming to help her.
They're are even stories of people killing little girls just because of their sex and how we don't need any more girls. China today has a rule of you can only have one to two guys or just one guy and one girl, but if there is only one girl or more then one they would simply kill the baby in many disturbing ways possible. Major terrorist groups today kill a bunch of people based off of sex gender and even religion such as the group “Isis”. The killing and harming of woman because of their sex is wrong because everyone should be treated equally without having the separation of one another. These are tragic events that are coexisting with the book Things fall apart which have to do with
In the contemporary society, education is a foundational human right. It is essentially an enabling right that creates various avenues for the exercise of other basic human rights. Once it is guaranteed, it facilitates the fulfillment of other freedoms and rights more particularly attached to children. Equally, lack of education provision endangers all fundamental rights associate with the welfare of human beings. Consequently, the role of education and in particular girl child education as a promoter of nation states welfare cannot be overemphasized. As various scholars asserts, the challenges and problems faced by the African girl child, to enjoy her right to education are multifaceted. Such difficulties include sexual abuse, child labor, discrimination, early pregnancies, violence and poverty, culture and religious practices (Julia 219). Across the developing world, millions of young girls lack proper access to basic education. In the contemporary society, this crisis, which is particularly critical in remote and poor region of sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia have fascinated increased public attention. However, almost all global nation states have assured their commitment in addressing various girl child challenges and allowed a declaration to enable each young girl and boy receive education by the year 2015 (Herz and Sperling 17). This target was firmly established and approved in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. However, this study will focus on girls’ education in Africa and its impacts to their livelihood.