Did you know... 14 million girls under the age of 18 marry each year. That’s around … 1,166,666 a month 269230 a week 38,461 a day 27 every minute Or, around one girl every two seconds. One in every five girls in the developing world is married by the age of 18. One in nine marries before they reach the age of 15. In countries like Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea and the Central African Republic (CAR), the rate of early and forced marriage is 60 per cent and over. Child brides are particularly prevalent in South Asia (46 per cent) and in sub-Saharan Africa (38 per cent). Countries with the highest rates of early and forced marriage in Europe include Georgia (17 per cent), Turkey (14 per cent) and Ukraine (10 per cent). At least 10 per cent of adolescents marry before the age of 18 in Britain and France. Consider what it would be like to be one of these girls... Help support the protection of children and women worldwide... Just increasing awareness can help save these women and children from a life of abuse.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:55:10 +0000
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