Happy International Women’s Day!
Today, we celebrate the International Women’s Day. Therefore, listen to Sarah, 15, one of our brave Child Rights Ambassadors from Ghana:“If I ask permission to go and visit my friends I get a beating, because my parents think I’m going to meet boys. Sometimes to punish me my parents withhold the money I need for school fees and books, which makes it hard for me to attend school. Sometimes they even deny me food. They would never do those things to a boy.
“Now I’m a Child Rights Ambassador and a member of a WCP Child Rights Club. At the club we learn that we girls actually have exactly the same rights as boys. Before, I had no idea about my rights. Thanks to the club I now know what my friends and I should be fighting for! In the future I want to be a police officer. I think female police officers have an important job to do.”
Sarah learnt about girls’ rights and how to fight the child sex trade through the project Rights and Democracy for One Million Girls’, being carried around the world by the World’s Children’s Prize together with ECPAT Sweden and local partners, with support from the Svenska PostkodLotteriet (The Swedish Postcode Lottery).
2014-03-08 09:46
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About the project
‘Rights and democracy for one million girls’ is an initiative being carried out all over the world by the World’s Children’s Prize Foundation, in collaboration with ECPAT Sweden and local organisations, with support from the Swedish Postcode Lottery.
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We post updates about girls’ rights and about the fight agains commercial sexual exploitation of children. We also let children from around the world voice their thoughts and opinions here. Do you want us to publish your own story on the blog? Please write to us at info@worldschildrensprize.org or contact us here.
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