The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) has hosted a photo exhibition "I Wish" by award winning photographer Dina Oganova at MOMA Tbilisi, dedicated to the International Day of the Girl Child. The exhibition was held within the framework of the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality, with the support of the Government of Sweden on October 10.

October 11 marks the International Day of the Girl Child, recognizing girls’ rights and the unique challenges they face around the world, including in Georgia. 

Adolescent girls have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not only during these critical formative years, but also as they mature into women. But the harmful practice of child marriage, which is a human rights violation, threatening girls’ lives and health, and limiting their future prospects, remains a challenge in Georgia.

With the photo exhibition, the UNFPA has introduced 20 parents from different age-groups, backgrounds and interests, who have adolescent girls and want to speak up and stand against child marriage, causing trauma and depriving girls of their childhood and opportunities to study, play, dream and explore the world.