SAY NO TO GIRL CHILD SLAVERY..

WHAT'S ON MY MIND!!! ITS THE GIRL CHILD........Say No to Girl Child Slavery. EPISODE 3. In our previous Episode i spoke on slavery and how it was abolished in the year 1830. Although  Brazil was the last country to abolish its participation in the transatlantic slave trade, in 1880. However  girl child slavery still remains a big issue around the world. MODERN DAY GIRL CHILD SLAVERY Its  also referred to as  Contemporary Slavery or Human Trafficking.Modern day girl child slavery is an institution of slavery that continue to exist in the present day. There's is an estimate of 20.9million people trapped in some form of slavery today in which girl child slavery is more. The contemporary takes many forms; 1. Early and Forced Marriage No Right to Education Girl Child Trafficking Genital Mutilation  EARLY AND FORCED MARRIAGE Its the marriage or union in which  one or both parties are below  the age of 18 years. Despite been prohibited by in...

WHATS ON MY MIND!!! ITS THE GIRL CHILD........Say No to Girl Child Slavery. EPISODE 2. I promised discussing on the girl child education but before then I would want us to know little about slavery and difference between the girl child slavery and girl child labour. WHAT IS SLAVERY?? Its referred to as a condition in which an individual has absolute power over the life; fortune and liberty of another. They are considered by law as property or chattel. It could also be defined as the state of being in bondage, servitude; subjugation, thrall; control and serfdom just to mention a few. BRIEF HISTORY ON SLAVERY... In the year 1441, was the the start of European slave trading in Africa. The Portuguese captain Antao Goncalves who was a Portuguese explorer and slave trader and first European to buy African slaves from black slave traders with Nuno Instao Capture 12 Africans in Cabo Branco (Modern Mauritania) and takes them to Portugal as slaves. History has it that most slaves i...

WHATS ON MY MIND!!! ITS THE GIRL CHILD...#Say No to Girls Slavery INTRODUCTION: WHOS THE GIRL CHILD.?? A Girl is a female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman also as a synonym for Daughter.(dictionary.com, girl, retrieved 2 January 2008). (Merriam-webster.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2014-06-04). *ETYMOLOGY* The English word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon word gerle (also spelled girle or gurle)The Anglo-Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym in some sense. Girl has meant any young unmarried woman since about 1530. Its first noted meaning for sweetheart is 1648. The earliest known appearance of girl-friend is in 1892 and girl next door, meant as a teenaged female or young woman with a kind of wholesome appeal, dates only to 1961.(] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), girl, retri...