Unicef India head wants change in mindset of people to prevent discrimination against girls

Updated on: Friday, December 28, 2012

Louis Georges Arsenault, Unicef's India head said here that Girls in the country are facing discrimination and to correct it, the prevailing mindset has to be changed.

Millions of adolescent girls in India, and across the globe, are not given the same opportunities to grow and develop on an equal footing with boys, Arsenault said.
 
"Girls are suffering from discrimination confronted with many issues like female foeticide, access to education and growing and child marriage. This being said, it’s difficult not to be moved and deeply affected by gang rapes happening here in the city," he added.
 
The UNICEF official said this situation was had fundamentally to do with women's status in the society. "The adolescent and girl child are being seen as a community that can be disposed of. It's a mindset that needs to be challenged and one way to address this is to raise our voice for change in social norms," he added.
 
Arsenault was speaking at the launch of the Cheer-O-Meter website here.

More Education news

• Karnataka department of higher education to further strengthen protection to women students and employees
• Heads of government and private schools directed to keep a close watch on the behaviour of teachers
• Chairman of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions submits his report
• Everyone will be given due representation says Goa CM
• Pune Education Department to hold meetings with schools to ensure a smooth RTE implementation
• Health and Medical Education, Forest and Home departments within the ambit of Public Services Guarantee Act
• 'value education' courses in engineering colleges to inculcate better values and character building
• students challenge new NET gidelines
• Proposed multi crore edu city project nearing completion
• 21 engineering colleges affiliated to the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University to seek accreditation
• MBBS and PG medical seats to be increased by 50% and 100% respectively from academic year 2013-14
• M S University's faculty of fine arts mired in controversy over a painting hurting religious sentiment
• IICA inks MoU with Bangalore-based National Law School of India University for forging academic partnership
• President asks private players to contribute in improving the standards of higher education
• First technical and medical university at picturesque Apatani Plateau in lower Subansiri district
• Prayas scheme to be extended to 4 more districts
• Jamia Millia Islamia Professor gets Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
• Japans new government will not waive tution fee to pro-Pyongyang high schools
• Most Israeli high school students found accessing Mobile phone during class hours
• UGC notifies the procedure and criteria for declaration of result for NET to be conducted on 30.12.12