Plus, half the children in Africa are female. So women's rights - which include rights of girls - include rights for female children in Africa. Many of whom will be subject to horrors visited only on female people such as FGM, (female) child rape, mandatory veiling, being kidnapped or sold into child or adolescent marriage, "corrective rape," infection with HIV by a male who believes raping a girl virgin will cure his own HIV, and femicide.

Children's rights are also inextricably tied to women's rights coz it's women who gestate and give birth to all children, boys & girls alike, and women provide the bulk of childcare. And coz most children in Africa will be kept alive in their first year or more of life by feeding from their mothers' breasts. Also, in much of Africa women provide the bulk of food and income for their children.