{"id":9855,"date":"2022-10-11T01:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:20:53","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl-child-igd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-day-of-the-girl-child-igd\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl Child (IGD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Day of the Girl Child aims to raise awareness about the importance and potential girls hold as the future of our society.<\/li>\n<li>It focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls\u2019 empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.<\/li>\n<li>2022 marks the 10th anniversary of International Day of the Girl Child.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Theme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This year\u2019s theme is \u201cOur time is now\u2014our rights, our future\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>First time in history, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, proposed an action plan to advance the rights of girls.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 66\/170 and adopted October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child.<\/li>\n<li>It was an annual day commemorated to honour girls. Every year, a new theme is to be picked to focus on the most prevalent issue of the year.<\/li>\n<li>International Day of the Girl Child was first observed in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/governance\/international-girl-child-day-crimes-against-girls-on-the-rise-in-india-especially-eastern-states-85383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 66\/170 declaring Oct. 11 as International Day of Girl Child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}