With an end goal to address difficulties standing up to young ladies and young ladies - the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and with help from accomplices is carrying out a 3-day (July 27-29, 2022) National Young Women and Girls Conference in Sinje, Grand Cape Mount County.
The meeting is a yearly program planned by the Ministry and its accomplices to give young ladies and young ladies the stage to accumulate and examine issues influencing them in their separate networks and together, foster substantial activity intends to resolve these issues.
This year, the gathering is labeled, In Light of the Bicentennial "Raising the Minds and Sights of Young Women and Girls for a Brighter Future".
Schooling and Leadership Development, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, and Cultural and Traditional Practices are the topical regions being talked about by the young ladies.
By and large, In 2016 the Liberian Girls in organization with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and National Stakeholders fostered an execution technique that features mediations to be carried out for Liberian young ladies. Key among these intercessions is the "Public Young Women and Girls Conference" which upholds the Implementation of the Manifesto for the turn of events and strengthening of the Liberian Girl Child and adds to the National Framework for Girls' strengthening.
Moreover, the National Young Women and Girls Conference is a posterity of the 2011 United Nations General Assembly embraced goal 66/170 proclaiming October 11, an International Day of the Girl Child. The UN put the day to the side to advocate young ladies' privileges issues, recognize difficulties experienced by juvenile young ladies and young ladies the world over and foster systems, activities and projects that tackle these issues.
Talking at the indoor opening meeting on Thursday, July 28, 2022, Deputy Gender Minister Alice Johnson Howard underlined that the current year's occasion goals are to: Elevate the personalities and sights of 200 young ladies, Boys and young ladies between ages 10-24 years from across the 15 regions in Liberia by fostering their ability as arising change-creators in their particular networks; Increase information on neighborhood networks Adolescence through media telephone in syndicated program and local area effort and mindfulness exercises; teaching general society about the hurtful impacts of savagery against ladies and young ladies and how networks can assume a significant part in handling or moderating these threats.
She focused on that the meeting will have a board conversation with various partners on issues influencing young ladies, young ladies and young men, to break normal generalizations and upgrade female cooperation in conversation and furthermore have guys filling in as backers and backing young ladies in their mission.
Serve Howard let members know that the meeting contained young ladies, young men and young ladies from across Liberia including in danger juvenile young ladies and young men, undergrads, secondary school understudies, females that are sign up for TVETs, out-of-school young ladies, the genuinely tested, young ladies from rustic and metropolitan networks, among others.
She begged the young ladies to exploit the gathering to improve society.
The Deputy Gender Minister commended UNICEF, UFDUM, Medica-Liberia, Plan International, Brac, ActionAid, Samaritan's Purse, and DCI-Liberia for the help delivered the Ministry.
In a unique proclamation, Madam Ina Williams Christensen, National Child Protection Officer, UNICEF-Liberia conveyed a composed explanation for the benefit of UNICEF Country Representative Laila O. Stray.
As indicated by the explanation, its an obvious fact that kids, youths and young ladies keep on confronting different difficulties all around the world, locally and broadly. The assertion cited Liberia's Demographic Health Survey (2019-2020) report which declares that 60% of ladies have at any point experienced actual savagery since the age 15. "Notwithstanding a slight decrease of 1%, teen pregnancy rate remains at 30% and is still of worry in Liberia while admittance to sexual and conceptive wellbeing data and administrations is low. Young ladies specifically, are impacted by destructive conventional practices, particularly early marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)," the report noted.
"There are likewise discriminatory orientation standards that make hindrances to young ladies' social and financial advancement.The above let us know the degree to which we should utilize our aggregate endeavors including juvenile young ladies and young ladies themselves decisively to make pathways through which young ladies and young ladies can flourish, get by and experience their maximum capacity. One method for doing this is to establish the empowering climate and stages where youngsters can be outfitted with the information, abilities, and ability to go to bat for their freedoms and safeguard themselves against the indecencies confronting them," the Country Rep explanation communicated.
As conveyed, Madam Gad expressed gratitude toward the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, the Adolescent Girls Working Group, sister UN Agencies and other advancement accomplices for coordinating the National Young Women and Girls Conference.
All things considered, the UNICEF Boss expressed that UNICEF anticipates the result of the occasion and swore its responsibilities to work with the Government of Liberia and Partners for the progression and strengthening of youngsters, youths and ladies in Liberia.
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