Girls, forgotten from #Metoo? More than 100 personalities launch the notice

If the importance of March 8 and November 25 is now recognized in the public sphere, it is different for that of October 11th. Created 10 years ago by the United Nations, the international day of rights of girls still suffering from a great invisibility.

According to a column published in To chatthis lack of media coverage is indicative of a lack of consideration tenacious towards children’s rights.

A blind spot of #Metoo?

For the hundred personalities who signed this October 11 appeal, it is urgent to remember it gender and sexual violence and stereotypingobjects of the feminist struggle, they are played from an early age.

The petitioners thus invoked data of alarming gravity: ” one in five young women have been raped or sexually assaulted “. In France, ” 82% women began to be victims of it street harassment before the age of 17 “while in the world, “200 million girls and women have been circumcised” And “12 million girls under 18 get married every year”.

” A program ambitious for a comprehensive sex education and against sexism “

Faced with such observations, Julie Gayet, Valérie Damidot, Rokhaya Diallo, Yael Naim, Camille Froidevaux-Metterie or even Manon Aubry insisted on the importance of this date of mobilization of 11 October in the public debate. Challenging the government of Emmanuel Macron, the signatories of the platform have called for greater awareness challenges relating to the rights of girls and adolescents:

“ We will reaffirm that girls must be able to make decisions, maintain control of their body, not doubt their abilities, live their civic and political commitments. We will ask the public authorities to quickly put in place an ambitious program of comprehensive sex education and against sexism, involving girls and boys in its development. “

In Paris, a great manifestation it is organized on 11 October at 1pm at the Town Hall.

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