Child bride – still followed custom…
December 7, 2009 at 10:00 am 1 comment
. Child marriage is a tradition which is still practiced at some parts of the world , where a little girls are married to men almost double of their age. This is a very harmful tradition and has lot of known life threatening consequences on young girls life.
Please take a moment to watch this 6-minute video on child marriage, with arresting images from award-winning photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair that depict the lives of girls in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Nepal who marry as children.
Child brides lack even the most fundamental human rights, and they remain largely invisible to development efforts. The girl at the age of her development is not even aware of her fundamental rights. Most of the girls when in some situations don’t even know how to handle, and can take any kind of steps.
Thanks to ICRW for taking efforts in highlighting this issue and working towards it. I hope, I can be of some help by spreading your voice to some more people.
See the original post from ICRW here: Child Marriages
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Asmita Singh
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Shilpee | December 14, 2009 at 8:07 am
It is sad but the fact remains that this is widely followed even in remote villages of India. While there are several NGOs who are trying to factor in on this issue, but the core of the matter lies with the parents and relatives of the girls. Thye are the ones who seem in a perpetual hurry to marry off their daughters from the moment they are born. Does not leave much of a life of choice for the young girl–between such parents and an aging, indifferent husband.