This article discusses girls'
intersectional marginalization in
international human rights law. The author
argues that fragmenting girls' identity
into the categories of "women" and
"children" results in a denial of their
rights through intersectional
discrimination. Intersectional feminist
theory is invoked as a lens for
understanding the intersectionality of age
and gender. Girls are young in an adult-
centered system, and they are female in a
male-dominated system. They are
marginalized by being female as children
and minors as women. This dual