11th Oct is being celebrated as the International Day of the Girl Child having theme Girls' Progress = Goals' Progress: What Counts for Girls. The world’s 1.1 billion girls are part of a large and vibrant global generation poised to take on the future. Yet the ambition for gender equality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlights the preponderance of disadvantage and discrimination borne by girls everywhere on a daily basis.
Eurasia Diary manages to talk with the Unicef Country Representative Edward Carwardine regarding his message on this day.