Adopt positive values, women tell young girls as world marks day

Wife of the former prime minister Idah Odinga who was the guest of honuor  poses with children from St. Teresa primary school during the International Day of the Girl Child celebrated by Eve-Sisters at Hilton. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]

Kenya: The Standard Group joined the world in celebrating the International Day of the Girl Child 2014. The day, whose theme this year was “Empowering adolescent girls: Ending the cycle of violence”, was marked yesterday.

This, even as a woman, who is supposed to protect her own, assaulted her two teenage daughters with a hot knife, apparently for not doing house chores.