Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007
- Document number
- 1814
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007
- Author/publisher
- Plan International
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
- Summary
- As ‘Because I am a Girl’ will show, discrimination against girls and young women remains deeply entrenched and widely tolerated throughout the world. Many of the challenges girls will face start from the moment they are born; in fact in some parts of the world, girls are the target of a social preference for boys even before birth. The ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’ cohort study was set up to follow 135 girls from birth until their ninth birthday, in 2015. Every year, researchers will visit the girls and their families to talk to them about what they eat, how healthy they are, their education, and over time will build up a picture of how the fact that they are girls impacts on their lives. Findings from the study will be published in each of Plan’s ‘State of the World’s Girls’ annual reports.
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