They are 600 million live in poor countries or moderate incomes. They constitute more than a quarter of the population in Asia, Latin America, Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, and are central to several of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established by the States UN members. Starting with Goal 5, which is to reduce maternal mortality by three quarters between 1990 and 2015.
And yet, these young girls 10 to 24 years are the left-to-account development policies. A paradox that the French group shouting "Parliamentarians in Action" decided to emphasize to ten days of the G8 in Deauville, in organizing this theme, the 16 and 17 May at the National Assembly, a meeting between experts and sixty of international parliamentarians.
"Tens of millions of girls are facing poverty, lack of schooling, discrimination, multiple forms of violence, abuse and exploitation", lists Danielle Bousquet, MP PS chops Armor and facilitator of this group. Married very young (before 15 years for one girl in seven in developing countries, 18 in 38% of them), they will - if they do not die - a large number of children.
Interest in the autonomy of these young women, empower them to educate themselves and control their own fertility, is not only a question of equality: it is also a key issue for the future demographic the planet. But public funds specifically to improve their situation, with the exception of too few initiatives are nonetheless significant.
"Public policy in general and development aid in particular are largely 'gender blind': it does not take into account the specific interests of women and men," Equilibrium analysis of NGOs & people. And this blindness is even more pronounced when it comes to girls, "for which the age factor is added to the genus level." Girls 'invisible', so who face particularly hard, lack of appropriate prevention, the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescent girls have eight times more likely to contract the virus than boys the same age.
"In general, policies to help youth do not direct their resources to the sub-categories of vulnerable adolescents and difficult to access. Thus, they primarily benefit urban populations, older, male, unmarried and education. While adolescents living in rural areas, mostly younger girls, married and uneducated, remain neglected, "said the association Population Council, which has published guides for decision makers of highly detailed data for fifty countries on the situation of these young girls.
Asserting that the decision does not count this population group is one of the most relevant levers to achieve the MDGs, parliamentarians call for "investing heavily in the direction of the girls," of particular way to "collect information both accurate and reliable information on their situation in health and education, to make their vulnerabilities more visible." They also offer a number of concrete measures, some of which would not be so difficult to implement.
Establish the villages of meeting places where girls could exist as such, with their words and their own rights. Ensuring they are accompanied on their way to school, center insecurity and sexual violence. And above all to promote their education, accounting for 70% of the 130 million youth who do not attend school in the world.
Catherine Vincent 
And yet, these young girls 10 to 24 years are the left-to-account development policies. A paradox that the French group shouting "Parliamentarians in Action" decided to emphasize to ten days of the G8 in Deauville, in organizing this theme, the 16 and 17 May at the National Assembly, a meeting between experts and sixty of international parliamentarians.
"Tens of millions of girls are facing poverty, lack of schooling, discrimination, multiple forms of violence, abuse and exploitation", lists Danielle Bousquet, MP PS chops Armor and facilitator of this group. Married very young (before 15 years for one girl in seven in developing countries, 18 in 38% of them), they will - if they do not die - a large number of children.
Interest in the autonomy of these young women, empower them to educate themselves and control their own fertility, is not only a question of equality: it is also a key issue for the future demographic the planet. But public funds specifically to improve their situation, with the exception of too few initiatives are nonetheless significant.
"Public policy in general and development aid in particular are largely 'gender blind': it does not take into account the specific interests of women and men," Equilibrium analysis of NGOs & people. And this blindness is even more pronounced when it comes to girls, "for which the age factor is added to the genus level." Girls 'invisible', so who face particularly hard, lack of appropriate prevention, the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescent girls have eight times more likely to contract the virus than boys the same age.
"In general, policies to help youth do not direct their resources to the sub-categories of vulnerable adolescents and difficult to access. Thus, they primarily benefit urban populations, older, male, unmarried and education. While adolescents living in rural areas, mostly younger girls, married and uneducated, remain neglected, "said the association Population Council, which has published guides for decision makers of highly detailed data for fifty countries on the situation of these young girls.
Asserting that the decision does not count this population group is one of the most relevant levers to achieve the MDGs, parliamentarians call for "investing heavily in the direction of the girls," of particular way to "collect information both accurate and reliable information on their situation in health and education, to make their vulnerabilities more visible." They also offer a number of concrete measures, some of which would not be so difficult to implement.
Establish the villages of meeting places where girls could exist as such, with their words and their own rights. Ensuring they are accompanied on their way to school, center insecurity and sexual violence. And above all to promote their education, accounting for 70% of the 130 million youth who do not attend school in the world.
Catherine Vincent
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