child marriage

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Child Marriage in Liberia

Child marriage in Liberia is not uncommon. According to Girls Not Brides, 36% of girls in Liberia enter into marriage before reaching their 18th

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According to a 2022 press release by UNICEF, in Zimbabwe, one out of three young girls enters into marriage before reaching their 18th birthday.

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Jerry Lee Lewis is forever immortalized as one of rock and roll’s most influential pioneers. Like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, Lewis’ career

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Houa* sat on the doorstep of her bamboo house helping her grandmother pluck a chicken. She is not even ten years old, but she is learning how to

2 min read 2022-07-21 21:30:48

Child marriage in the Ivory Coast remains a prevalent issue. The Marriage Act of 1983 states that the legal age for marriage is 18 for women and 21

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“After feeling pity with my situation, my friend asked [me] to go where she works. Upon reaching there, I was disturbed to see that it was sex

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Child marriage is a centuries-long tradition that is prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia. More specifically, it is very common

2 min read 2022-05-20 15:30:01

Two horizontal stripes of red sandwich a large swath of green. Over the green is a five-pointed yellow star, centered above an upward-pointing

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A March 2021 report by UNICEF indicates that as many as 100 million girls in the world could experience child marriage in the next 10 years. The

2 min read 2022-03-29 17:45:52

Despite being a sensitive issue, child marriage has been the talk of the town lately, especially after the government had announced that child

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As the government currently has no plans to ban child marriage in the country, Terengganu state Exco also expressed that the state will not stop

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Just a few days back, the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development of Malaysia, Rina Harun revealed that the government currently has no

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Child marriage has been an issue plaguing the country for many years now. Permatang Pauh MP, Nurul Izzah had asked the Minister of Women, Family and

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Child marriage in Yemen is a centuries-old human rights violation. Adults force young teenage girls to marry men decades older than them. Perhaps

3 min read 2022-03-07 16:30:08

Young children between the ages of 0 and 14 made up almost 26% of the population in Indonesia in 2020, but many of them do not live a good quality