When I came home from work this evening, the CN tower was still glowing pink in honour of the first ever International Day of the Girl Child.
A day to honour all the girls in the world, and remember all those whose lives are brutalized or diminished by discrimination, and other horrors like child marriage.
Approximately 70 million young women today were married before age 18, according to the UN, which notes that child marriage denies a girl her childhood, disrupts her education, limits her opportunities, increases her risk of being a victim of violence and abuse, and jeopardizes her health.
But all I could think about tonight was two of those girls.
