INTRODUCTION
The heart of the girl child who has been denied and abused bleeds profusely. It is filled with anger, pain, and torture. All that she waits to hear is her voice being heard. They have mouths but they can’t speak, they have a voice but it is voiceless. With great sympathy and compassion do l write on the topic above, to become a voice for them.
WILL THEIR QUESTION BE SOLVED?
This is a question to all humanity. We live in a society where the girl child and women are constantly being abused and denied their rights. To begin with the meaning of rights, rights refer to legal, social, or ethical principles of entitlement or freedom; that is, rights refer to the normative rules about what is allowed or owed by people according to a legal system or social convention, or an ethical theory. Some forms of rights are; rights to education, human rights and rights to shelter. In Africa and globally, the girl child is always at high risk when rights denial or abuse is concerned. It is also at an alarming rate with which if care or concerns are not kept in place, things will escalate. Taking Ghana as an example, one out of four females you meet has been abused. This is a very bad record. All what the girl child is asking is that; give them their rights and stop abusing them.
HOW CAN THEIR QUESTION BE SOLVED?
The best way the girl child abuse can be stopped is through us. We are our own problems and problem solvers, so when we make up our mind and stop it. We can happily do that.
Their question can also be solved when we take drastic measures to curtail all their abuses and denials. Some of the measures are; the enactment of human rights law for the girl child. This law should be a law that will govern and protect them. Those who will break this law must face the law so that it will deter others from doing so.
CONCLUSION
The plight of abused and denied girl children cries out for attention, filled with anger and pain, yet their voices remain unheard. In a society where women and girls face constant abuse and denial of rights, the question remains: will their plight ever be addressed? The solution lies in collective action, through enacting and enforcing laws that protect the rights of the girl child and holding perpetrators accountable for their actions.
