In Colombia and in the world, girls remain the main victims of sexual abuse, maltreatment, and discrimination, among other crimes, and obstacles that frustrate their projects of life and expose them to all kinds of violence.
In the world, according to the foundation Plan, millions of children are virtually ignored and become invisible to governments because there are no reliable statistics that show, for example, how many drop out of school due to early marriage or how many are victims of sexual violence,, or how many more become mothers under the age of 15 years.
This call does Plan purpose of the International Day of the Girl child, an event that comes to lead several years ago, and that in his edition 2016 will be held this Tuesday, October 11.
"we Want to make an emphasis about the figures on girls and the importance of differentiating the information of boys and girls to understand the multiple realities that living in Colombia and in the world. Without clear statistics, accurate and reliable we can’t improve these situations because they were not measured and therefore they become invisible," said Gabriela Bucher Balcázar, president of the Fundación Plan in Colombia.
The Plan report stressed, according to figures of Legal Medicine, 2015, that girls remain the main victims of sex crimes. the Of the 22.155 cases registered the previous year, 16.116 correspond to minor children, who represent 73 percent of all cases. The children (boys) were victims of abuse were 3.015 last year.
The most sexually abused are girls between 10 and 14 years (7.648 cases); however, between the age group of zero to four years were reported 2.011 cases. The alleged perpetrator is, in 88 percent of cases, a close person (family member, partner or ex-partner, friend or caregiver of the victim), according to Legal Medicine.
Another fact that concerned, in Colombia, is the teen pregnancy. According to the National Survey of Demographics and Health 2010 (the most recent data) to 19.5 per cent of adolescents aged 15 to 19 is pregnant or has been pregnant.
In its report, 'Counting the invisible', the Plan highlighted progress on public policies aimed at children and adolescents, but stressed that in 2014, more than 100 million young women in low-income countries and media were not able to read the entirety of a sentence.
"girls who do not attend school are more likely than boys to be excluded from the education. Women from all regions dedicate more hours than men when unpaid work, such as, for example, to the provision of care and the domestic tasks of cooking and cleaning, which leaves them less time to learn, rest and take care of themselves. In all countries, women earn less than men," noted the report of the Plan.
The foundation Plan will carry out the forum 'Counting the invisible, first girls', this Thursday 14 October in the auditorium of Offset of the avenue 68.
early marriage and other outrages
The foundation Save The Children also joined this call for the girls. And in its report 'Up to the last girl' identified that Colombia is in the position 75 (below Iran, Namibia or Indonesia, where being a girl means less opportunities for the enjoyment and guarantee of their rights.
“We have classified the countries in an index of best to worst country to be a girl, with indicators based on child marriage, education, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and the number of parliamentary”, said this NGO.
The numbers presented by Save the Children indicate that being a child is difficult because the world is three times more likely that a girl is not attending an educational institution; it is two times more likely to die due to bad nutrition; it is two times more prone to sexual attacks, and two times more prone to the trafficking of people.
"just as in the home and in public decision-making, girls are marginalized often and are not sufficiently represented in the government", warns the document.
The NGO also says that more than 700 million women worldwide were married before reaching 18 years old and that one out of every three is married before age 15. It is also estimated that 30 million girls are at risk of genital mutilation over the next decade and 2,600 million girls and women live in countries where rape-marriage is not expressly penalized.
"La violence physical, sexual and psychological gender, and can occur in the home, in schools or in the communities and is rooted in discrimination and exclusion," said Maria Paula Martinez, Director of Save the Children in Colombia.
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