(Baonghean.vn) - Poverty, gender inequality, and poor awareness are key causes leading to child marriage in many countries around the world today.
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| Child marriage is a marriage in which the bride and groom, or one of them, is a child or a person under the age of marriage (usually before puberty). In the photo: 6-year-old Tahani (in pink dress) marries a 25-year-old man. She took this photo with her friend Ghada, another “young wife” in the Hajjah Mountains, Yemen. |
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| The practice of child marriage, which was once prevalent in many parts of the world, including Europe, still exists in parts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America. Pictured: A bride in tears of grief on her wedding day. |
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| Official statistics from the United Nations show that up to 30% of girls living in developing countries get married before the age of 18, and up to 14% of girls get married before the age of 15. In the photo: Young wives in a Yemeni village are always silent and shy in their covered clothes. |
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| It is known that South Asia and Central Africa - sub-Saharan Africa are two regions with high rates of child marriage, in which Niger is the country with the highest rate in the world, up to 76% of girls. In the photo: Surita cried in pain on her wedding day. Nepal, where child marriage is a custom, but she could not bear it when she was too young and was taken by horse-drawn carriage to her husband's house. |
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| According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), up to 14% of women in Yemen are married before the age of 15 and 52% are married before the age of 18. The painful reality of child marriage in Yemen is also seen in many other countries such as India, Afghanistan, Ethiopia... In the photo: Rajani is only 5 years old and was woken up by her father in the middle of the night to get married. In India, child marriage is illegal so these ceremonies often take place at night. |
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| According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Bangladesh has the fourth highest rate of child marriage in the world, with 29% of girls married before the age of 15 and 65% before the age of 18. According to reports from Bangladeshi states, child marriage will force girls to face many health concerns such as pregnancy at a very young age, domestic violence due to the age gap and the possibility of increased poverty. Girls from lower-class, poor families have a rate of child marriage that is twice as high. |
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| On average, every year worldwide, 16 million babies are born to mothers between the ages of 15 and 19, accounting for 11% of the total number of births globally. |
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| More worryingly, early pregnancy and childbirth affect the health and psychology of young girls who are not yet capable of raising children. In the photo: Asia (in Hajjah, Yemen) became a mother at the age of 12. At the age of 14, she already had two daughters. Giving birth early without knowledge or help, she soon suffered from postpartum depression. |
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| Despite many efforts by the international community, child marriage is still one of the most pressing problems in the world today, especially in poor and underdeveloped countries. |
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| To be successful in the fight against child marriage, the United Nations believes that it is necessary to overcome poverty, backwardness, gender inequality, social inequality, ethnic, regional and class discrimination, and improve the education of the whole society. In the photo: A young couple in Ethiopia. The groom is Addisu, 23 years old and the bride is Destaye, only 11 years old. |
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| Poverty, gender inequality, and poor awareness are some of the main causes of child marriage. However, child marriage cannot help poor people escape from poverty. This vicious cycle will continue as long as social organizations and agencies around the world do not have effective solutions to this problem. |
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