Carrying her 6-month-old baby, a 15-year-old walks home from school for her lunch break. She attends Romogi Primary School in Uganda's Palorinya Refugee Settlement. Back in session after the COVID lockdown, the school has 19 child mothers, including some girls who became pregnant while out of school. Studies indicate a global increase in teen pregnancy during the pandemic.Carrying her 6-month-old baby, a 15-year-old walks home from school for her lunch break.
She's referring to one of the many ways that COVID-19 has had an impact on the lives of girls. During the pandemic, she said, parents are going out to work or do errands and kids have not been able to go to school – their safe space – during various lockdowns., a human rights lawyer in Kenya who is also an Aspen fellow.Teen pregnancy — including pregnancy from rape and incest — is just one of the ways the pandemic has stalled progress for girls in many countries.
"Because the children will have issues, and they're going to question and have challenges. We'll have to deal with that as a world."The mood in 2022 is a far cry from the optimism surrounding the Day of the Girl at its creation., vice president for girls and women strategy at the United Nations Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that supports the U.N.
A 14 year old school girl Hafsa sits with friends and neighbors while posing for photos on her wedding day at a village named Joymoni from a coastal area from Mongla in Bagerhat district. Bangladesh witnessed a 13% increase in child marriages during the Covid-19 pandemic last year as the deadly virus massively affected societies and economies, pushing many into extreme poverty.Child marriage in particular was targeted by both Day of the Girl and The Girl Declaration.
Early on, back in 2020, gender equity advocates warned that the pandemic was already threatening to derail the progress toward goals for girls.
This is tragic.
Sure. You robbed girls of their necessary social life for two years while you kept them masked and out of school. The suicide rate among teen girls skyrocketed during the first six months of the corona panic and y’all kept right on pressing.