Afghan father of nine says he had to sell his six-year-old - TopicsExpress



          

Afghan father of nine says he had to sell his six-year-old daughter to pay off debts. The causative role of high fertility in worsening poverty and the violation of basic human rights of women and children is very obvious in cases like this. Similarly, poachers/illegal loggers often attempt to justify their role in driving species to extinction / cutting down forests by reference to large families who must be fed. Happily, in this case the little girl was rescued by a human rights group who arranged for the fathers debt to be repaid by an anonymous donor, but what of the other 39,000 children which are married off each day? edition.cnn/2014/04/08/world/asia/afghanistan-child-bride/index.html?hpt=hp_c6 More on child marriages: un.org/youthenvoy/news/child-marriages-39000-every-day-more-than-140-million-girls-will-marry-between-2011-and-2020/
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:30:00 +0000

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