{"id":28756,"date":"2014-10-14T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28756"},"modified":"2014-10-14T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:16:42","slug":"govt-committed-to-girls-rights-in-canada-and-internationally-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/14\/govt-committed-to-girls-rights-in-canada-and-internationally-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t committed to girls&#8217; rights in Canada and internationally: Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28795\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg\" alt=\"PM Harper in Whitby (Photo courtesy of PM Stephen Harper's official Facebook page.)\" width=\"960\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1-900x650.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PM Harper in Whitby (Photo courtesy of PM Stephen Harper&#8217;s official Facebook page.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; In a statement marking the International Day of the Girl Child, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is committed to giving girls a strong foundation to succeed in life.<\/p>\n<p>Harper says the government is promoting the rights of girls in a number of ways, including initiatives that deter violence, sexual exploitation and cyber-crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Harper says Canada continues to make significant contributions by supporting efforts that promote access to education, nutrition and health services.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister says that in too many places around the globe, girls are still denied access to quality education, nutrition and health services.<\/p>\n<p>And he calls Canada a global leader on maternal, newborn and child health.<\/p>\n<p>Harper also says he&#8217;s looking forward to meeting Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani education activist who shared this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace prize, when she formally receives honorary Canadian citizenship later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; In a statement marking the International Day of the Girl Child, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}