Yesterday evening i stumbled upon this movie clip, shared on Facebook.

The movie clip is a trailer for a documentary called It’s a girl” – the three deadliest words in the world, which features the fact that 200 million girls are missing in world population – because they are girls.

In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide”.

Girls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at the hands of their own husbands or other family members.

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The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.

I’d like to add that I’m all for abortion and women’s right to decide about their lives and bodies. (Imagine that same sentence, but exchange the word women for men…) But to abort girls – because they are girls – is genderside – and a part of the same structural problem, which makes abortion illegal in many countries.

After having seen this video clip I’m most grateful that all day today will be about social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurial business models – my way of contributing to a better world. Without trying to make a difference I wouldn’t know what to do with myself!

Lots of love to all my sisters out there,

Evelina