Child marriage severely harms girls and exposes them to various human rights violations. It impedes their right to education, as marriage often entails being forced to drop out of school to assume adult responsibilities. This lack of education perpetuates a cycle of poverty, limiting girls’ opportunities for personal development and financial independence. In this piece, Divya Srinivasan, Global Lead for End Harmful Practices at Equality Now, writes that some progress in reducing child marriage has been achieved in Eastern and Southern Africa. However, progress is too slow as the prevalence rate has only reduced from 39% to 32% over the past 25 years, while other regions have made much faster progress. At the current trajectory, it is estimated that child marriage in the region won’t end until 2240. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d4KnKWnw #EndChildMarriage #18NoExceptions #EndFGM #womensrightsarehumanrights #SADCModelLaw
Child marriage is another example of #sexism in action.
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1ychild marriage has many challenges that come with ,apart from dropping out of school poor parenting skills due to immaturity and poverty relations, continuous circle of child marriage for another generation