The Sheikh of Al-Azhar wrote, in a tweet on Twitter, that Islam came to liberate women from pre-Islamic customs that detracted from their rights, and treated them as an imperfect human being who was deprived of will and rights.
The Sheikh of Al-Azhar made this call on the occasion of the International Girls’ Day, which is commemorated annually on the eleventh of October.
The focus of this day is to raise awareness of the observance of the rights of girls, by ensuring that they benefit from education and health care, as well as protection from discrimination.
On the nineteenth of December 2019, the United Nations voted to designate the eleventh of October as the International Day of Girls.
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