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Bengal empowers girls against early marriage

Mumbai :: India | 5 days ago

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Even if you are not a victim, you can help by blowing the whistle on a forced marriage being planned or performed in your family or neighbourhood. Social welfare minister Biswanath Chowdhury said the government came up with the novel concept to curb the...

Tags: child marriage, social welfare, India, Mumbai, Education, Social Issues, H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal, Cooch Behar, Cooch Behar district, Orphanage, Child welfare

Minors escape from child marriage in Haryana

Mumbai :: India | 8 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Their father Chhotu Ram of Kanhora village, 30 kms from here, had arranged their marriage with three brothers at Subbasedi village, near Bawal, a government official said. However, Maniksha, the eldest of the three, did not want her younger siblings...

Tags: child marriage, India, Mumbai, Haryana, Injunction, Rewari, Bawal, Chhotu Ram, Law Crime

India urged to ban child marriages

Shanghai :: China | 10 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

India�s representative Dr Karin Hulshof said India must not accept child labour or tolerate child marriages and must allow children, especially girls, to go to school. She said each year, about one million babies die in the first month of their life,...

Tags: child marriages, India, China, Shanghai, Child labour, Malaysia, Sungkai, Child marriage, UNICEF, Childhood, Malaysia Nanban, Makkal Osai, Social Issues, Labor

One Indian among three women married as child in the world : UNICEF

Posted by: chnarendra  | 

New Delhi :: India | 12 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) have released a Report in September 2009 based on study of 96 countries representing 61% of the world population. The report mentions that more than half of all the world’s women...

Tags: Chield marriages, UNICEF, child marriage, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Arranged marriage, child development

Child marriages still exist

Posted by: prabirghose  | 

Lucknow :: India | 6 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Child marriage used to be rampant in ancient India but, gradually, with the spread of education, the thinking has changed. However, these are still happening in some parts of the country due to the helplessness of the poor who cannot afford to get their...

Tags: child marriage, child trafficking

A 12 year old becomes a mother

Posted by: prabirghose  | 

London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The news of a London girl giving birth to a baby might shock the 21st century folks but, in ancient times, when child marriages were common in India, such cases never resulted in surprises or shock. That is why there used to be families that boasted of...

Tags: child marriage, one night stand, boyfriend, pregnent

BURKINA FASO: Child marriage worsens population pressure

Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | 8 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

It was not the first time the Burkina Faso primary school director saw one of his female students drop out to get married, but the February wedding of 11-year-old Maimouna Tamboura was “too much� for Adama Sawadogo. “I decided for the first time...

Tags: child marriage

Burden of young mothers

Mumbai :: India | 8 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Child marriage is a crippling medical and social burden to women in India and poses a demographic threat to the entire world, health experts warned in The Lancet. Specialists in public health from India and the United States looked at data for 22,807...

Tags: Indian, child marriage

Officials block children's marriages

Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 9 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Saudi Arabia have refused to marry three 13-year-old girls, amid an outcry by rights activists over child marriages. Last week marriage officials told the parents of three girls they were too young, citing a recent instruction by the head of the Dammam...

Tags: Al-Watan, marriage officials, child marriage

Early marriage threatens Yemeni society

Say'ūn :: Yemen | 9 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Setting the minimum age for marriage to 18 has been a hotly debated topic since its initial proposal in 2000. The recent decision of the Committee of Legalising Islamic Sharia in the Parliament to reject the proposal has sparked much opposition from child...

Tags: marriage, yemen, child marriage, legal, marriages, children, islam, pas

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