Who will protect our young girls around the globe, from this barbaric institution called child marriage? Do you know that we are living with 700 million women today who were married as children? the governing bodies; the UN, the local governments, and parents must be held accountable for the protection of girls around the globe.We can't be talking human rights and children rights and so many abuses are taking place beneath the guise of marriage.
This child bride problem is a global virus.According to the article child marriage around the world if there's no reduction the global number of women married as children will reach 1.2 billion by 2050.Do you understand this?It means that 1.2 billion girls would have …show more content…
Living in niger is 75% of the world child brides.Some are fifth wives who enter a literal form of slavery.Wearing heavy brass ankle ring (girls not brides.org).Twelves years old show married a forty-six-year-old who already had 11 wives.She was constantly raped and beaten.In the banna district, In Australia, most females marry between 10-12 years.Sheb a ten-year-old, whose father sold her for marriage because his second wife developed stepmother syndrome and wanted her out of the picture, her father wanted to avoid conflict and gave her away like a sack of flour, to be torn and battered by a man who was forty-six years old.She suffered many fractures and miscarriages as a …show more content…
Finally, laws and policies must be implemented to cement the new building. the UN convention on the rights of the child must be more forthcoming in countries acknowledging the legal age of marriage .Then ,government must be more forthcoming in acknowledging the legal age of marriage .Then governments must not turn their backs on this ,but direct is national importance .They must also provide policies which prevent this practice .The government must make it a law for births and marriages to be registered .Child marriage though culturally and traditionally rooted is a virus that must be eradicated .Getting rid of this virus will prevent the death of girls under the age of 15 who are five times more likely to die in childbirth