{"id":17617,"date":"2012-10-12T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17617"},"modified":"2012-10-12T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:15:22","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/international-day-of-the-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has designated October 11<sup>th<\/sup> the \u2018International Day of the Girl\u2019 in an effort to stop discrimination against girls.<\/p>\n<p>Unhappily, neither the UN nor the International Anglican Women\u2019s Network have denounced the ultimate discrimination against girls: not allowing them to be born. Sex-selective abortions in the past three decades have killed 163 million girls, an inconvenient statistic studiously ignored by the International Anglican Women&#8217;s Network, an organisation which champions &#8220;reproductive health services&#8221;, including abortions. Of girls.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2012\/10\/11\/ACNS5205\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, 11 October, is the first ever \u2018International Day of the Girl\u2019. The Day has been designated by the United Nations in response to a growing acknowledgement that investing in girls, while overcoming discrimination against girls, releases their potential to flourish and to contribute to their communities and to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Girls are three times more likely than boys to suffer from malnutrition and are more likely to be forced into early marriage\u2019, said Coordinator of the International Anglican Women\u2019s Network, Ann Skamp. \u2018Around the world, the daily realities of poverty, discrimination and violence mean that one in three girls is prevented from receiving a secondary education. Only when obstacles such as these are dismantled will girls properly achieve their full potential. So it\u2019s time to shatter stereotypes, advocate for and enable equality, and change girls\u2019 lives.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has designated October 11th the \u2018International Day of the Girl\u2019 in an effort to stop discrimination against girls. Unhappily, neither the UN nor the International Anglican Women\u2019s Network have denounced the ultimate discrimination against girls: not allowing them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/international-day-of-the-girl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[412,898,899],"class_list":["post-17617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-ann-skamp","tag-international-anglican-womens-network","tag-international-day-of-the-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}