Social connection of street girls in the context of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

This year 2012, the theme of IWD is “CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES”. Following this theme, this paper is going to study about a deprived but major segment of girls who are street girls and their social connection in Dhaka city, Bangladesh.In Bangladesh, much progress has been made to protect and promote adolescent girls and girl children's rights in recent times. However, girls are found in continuous victimization of violence, deprivation of basic human needs and rights worldwide. From this study, it has been revealed that majority of the street girls (37.50 percent) are flower sellers whereas, 18.80 percent are prostitutes, 6.25 percent are garments worker, 6.25 percent are beggars, 12.50 percent are shopkeepers and 6.25 percent are paper-hawkers.In reducing gender gap not only between men and women but also among women and girls’, participation must be increased at all tiers of our society.