r loans is common. The debt is extended for a long period because it is built upon by accrued expenses and unjust practices by the debtors. Girls are used more often than boys because of their culturally inferior status, which is common amongst many societies. This common position of inferiority makes the girl-child more exploitable than other members of society. The global economy is encouraging and supporting non-personal business ethics abroad.. Companies should treat their foreign employees the same as their domestic ones. If a US or Japanese corporation provides sanitary work conditions, and wages that will provide a sufficient living and economic advancement for domestic employees, the same should be applied to foreign ones. Corporate watchdogs should receive more international governmental and political support.The key to diminishing the exploitation of girls worldwide is to give them a voice. Girls are many times seen as the property of their parent or family to be given away to another family, or man, through marriage; having no individual self-identity. There are already initiatives to give children in general, voices. They are organized, regionally and globally. In Peru, a 15 year old girl named Patricia is heading a national child worker movement. Other NGO's are promoting initiatives to organize and educate children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international and effective watchdog for children and girls. International education on these issues is important. People have to be made aware of these atrocities. Pressure for the home communities of these companies will make them aware that their actions are being watched and are important to those outside of the exploited countries. GLOBAL GIRLHOODGirlhood is a very relative term and concept. Girls in general are usually female children before adulthood. It's this designation of adulthood for girls which draws the border culturally. Betwe...
