“Contrary to my wishes”: UNFPA World Population 2020 report calls for an end to practices harmful to the health of women and girls
02/07/2020 00:30
“Contrary to my wishes”: UNFPA World Population 2020 report calls for an end to practices harmful to the health of women and girls
02/07/2020 00:30
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Every year, millions of girls around the world are subjected to practices that inflict physical and emotional harm on them, according to the UN Global Population Fund (UNFPA) global report from 30 June.
The online release of the report was organized by the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia on 30 June. The event was attended by the UNFPA Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Alanna Armitage; Professor Christoph Gilmoto of the University of Paris Research Institute for Development; Northern Macedonia Roma activist Nesime Salioska; Advisor to the Prime Minister of Georgia on Human Rights and Gender Equality Lela Akiashvili; singer, activist and speaker of UNFPA in Kazakhstan Akmarzhan Kusherbayeva (KALIYA) and Orkhan Karimov from Endorphin Advertising Agency of Azerbaijan.
Child marriage and preference for sons are among the nineteen harmful practices discussed in the report. Many countries face these problems to a greater or lesser extent.
Different values attributed to boys and girls often lead to the preference of sons, which is widespread in many countries of the world.
Many women are subjected to tremendous pressure from their husbands, families and communities to have at least one son.
Despite progress made in eradicating some harmful practices worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse these results. A recent analysis showed that if the necessary services and programs remained unavailable for six months, another 13 million girls would marry before 2030.
“Harmful practices against girls cause them deep and lasting trauma, depriving them of the right to reach their full potential,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem.
All forms of harmful practices and discrimination have one common root cause: the widespread belief that girls are less valuable than boys.
Years of experience and research show that working among ordinary people can better achieve change, according to a UNFPA report. “We must solve this problem by eliminating the root causes, especially gender prejudices. We must better support the community’s own efforts to recognize how these practices harm girls, and to recognize the benefits that ending the society gives them ... The rights, choices and bodies of girls are their property, and we will not stop until we will achieve this,” said Dr. Kanem.
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