{"id":6160,"date":"2014-10-10T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:24:58","slug":"day-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/day-girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow, October 11, is International Day of the Girl Child, a day the UN has chose to draw awareness to girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.<\/a> \u00a0This year’s theme is Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence\u00a0<\/em>which ties in with the UN’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence Against Women<\/a> which aims to raise public awareness and work towards preventing and ending violence against women an girls around the world.<\/p>\n

As a mommy of two beautiful girls and an involved member of the international women’s group FAWCO (the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas), this is a topic that is very close to my heart.<\/p>\n

I am thankful that my daughters are growing up in a place where they have equal rights to my son but the unfortunate reality is that their reality will not be equal to that of their brother.<\/p>\n

We often look at violence against girls and women as a third world problem, but the statistics are staggering for girls worldwide:<\/p>\n