Ensuring equal rights for girl child stressed

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RAJSHAHI, Oct 1, 2020 (BSS) – Speakers at a discussion stressed the need for ensuring education, health care, equal rights, safety and security for every girl child besides stopping child marriage and all sorts of violence against them.

Ensuring equal rights to the girl child can be the crucial means of making them equally worthy citizens besides obtaining substantial and sustainable development of the nation.

They came up with the observation while addressing the National Day of the Daughters Child- 2020 at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner on Wednesday.

The District administration and Department of Women Affairs jointly organized the meeting discussing and devising ways and means on how to ensure equal rights to the daughters’ child.

Advocate Adiba Anjum Mita, MP, addressed the meeting as the chief guest, while Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil was in the chair.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Shariful Haque, Additional Superintendent of Police Ifte Khayer Alam and social worker Shahin Akter Rainy also spoke.

Among others, Deputy Director of the Department of Women Affairs Shobnom Shirin, Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat and District Education Officer Rafiqul Islam took part in the open discussion.

Lawmaker Adiba Mita said ensuring safety and security for girls through combating all sorts of violence especially sexual harassment against them is very important for the girls to become worthy citizens.

Sexual harassment restricts girl’s rights to education, rights to mobility, rights to freedom and rights to life.

Terming child marriage as the major violence and gross violation of human rights, she said there is no alternative to prevent the child marriages.

Community support is very important to attain the cherished goal, she added.