Education can be a powerful tool to stop the practice of child marriage. It empowers girls, and their success can ultimately boost their communities.
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The reasons for the phenomenon of child marriage are complex and include the fact that in customary law, marriageable age was never reckoned as an actual number but depended on puberty.
The decline in child marriages in Ethiopia is due to its rapidly changing social and economic environment.
In a celebration of the rights of children, the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan, and Kailash Satyarthi, who has been…
More than two decades of work to reduce the rate of child marriages has produced mixed results, a new study has found. Researchers…
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