• A demonstration is organized on the occasion of the International Day of Girls' Rights this Tuesday, October 11 in Paris, at 1 p.m., Place de l'Hôtel de Ville.

  • The NGO Plan International, which initiated the creation of this day at the UN, notes "a decline in progress".

  • A hundred personalities called "to quickly put in place an ambitious program of comprehensive education on sexuality and against sexism".

Did you know that around the world, nearly 200 million girls and women have already been circumcised?

That 12 million girls are forced into marriage each year?

That in France, 82% of women under 17 have already been victims of harassment in the public space?

And that one in five women under 24 has been raped or sexually assaulted?

It is to alert on this particular situation of vulnerability which affects little girls and adolescents that a demonstration against violence against girls is organized this Tuesday, October 11 in Paris, on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights. girls.

10 years after the first International Day of Girls' Rights, the NGO Plan International, which initiated the creation of this day at the UN, notes "a setback in progress" linked to the effect of the crises health, climate and food.

The situation has worsened, for example, in sub-Saharan Africa, where today one in three married children lives in this region of the world, compared to one in five ten years ago.

“The invisibilization of this day is regrettable”

New ambassador for Plan International France, actress Julie Gayet believes that "everything starts at this age in reality, on gender inequalities, but also street harassment, on the Internet, forced marriages..." "When families don't don't have the means, it's the boys who are going to study…”, also points out the actress, who regrets the lack of visibility of this day: “Unfortunately for some it is not their subject…”

This is also the opinion of a hundred personalities, who have just published a column in

Causette

calling for "a real day of mobilization for girls' rights".

"The invisibilization of this day is regrettable and reveals the little consideration given to the rights of minors", tackles the collective, which brings together the former Minister of Education Najat Vallaud Belkacem, the journalist Rokhaya Diallo, the psychiatrist Muriel Salmona, the historian Mathilde Larrère, or the actress Vanessa Demouy.

"There was a before and after #MeToo in the media's treatment of violence against women, there also needs to be a commitment from the media on the issue of girls", says

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feminist activist Fatima Benomar, one of the signatories of the platform.

"We need school programs for comprehensive education on sexuality and against sexism", adds the activist, while the forum emphasizes that the 2001 law which provides for three awareness sessions per year on this subject in colleges "does not is only very little or badly applied" and that the Minister of Education recently expressed concern about it.

According to a survey published at the beginning of the year by the feminist collective #NousToutes with more than 10,000 people, the young people questioned only benefited "on average from 13%" of the number of sessions planned, instead of 21 on the whole schooling.

  • Demonstration on October 11 at 1 p.m., Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

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  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France

  • Julie Gayet

  • Womens rights

  • Violence against women

  • National Education