Canada partners firm on international day of the girl

The High Commissioner of Canada to Nigeria, His Excellency, Mr. Perry J. Calderwood, recently celebrated the International Day of the Girl by hosting a roundtable to discuss how media and private sector partners can invest in adolescent girls to promote girl safety and empowerment. The discussion was led by Girl Hub, an NGO working in three African countries to address the needs and rights of adolescent girls.The High Commissioner and Girl Hub welcomed representatives from the media and private sector, congratulating them on the inaugural partnering event, and encouraging all parties to find innovative ways to achieve tangible and sustainable results on protection and empowerment of girls.The International Day of the Girl is celebrated on October 11 each year. The day promotes girls human rights and aims to draw global attention to the gender inequality and abuse that many girls suffer worldwide. In line with this years theme, Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence, the principal objective of this roundtable event was to motivate, inform, engage, and equip the media and private sector to focus on girl safety, a key dimension needed for adolescent girls to thrive.High Commissioner Calderwood stated that, Violence against women and girls is pervasive in many communities worldwide and takes many forms. We must redouble efforts to overcome such violence and to create societies in which women and men are equal. Todays discussion launches a new and promising collaboration between civil society and business that has the potential to unleash a ripple effect of change, a phenomenon that Girl Hub popularly refers to as The Girl Effect.Canada is committed to the view that equality between men and women is not only a human rights issue, but is also an essential component of sustainable development, social justice, peace, and security. Canada is a world leader in the promotion and protection of womens and girls rights and gender equality.]]>
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