World turning blind eye to 10 million child brides each year, charity warns

UK should reduce the level of forced marriages of girls under 18 years, said the plan in the UK Report

A girl under the age of 18 are married every three seconds worldwide, according to a charity of Community Development is asking the British government to help end child marriage.

plan UK released a report this week entitled

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which states that 10 million children under 18 years become an annual basis. In developing countries in South America, North Africa and parts of Asia, one in three children under 18 years, and one in seven girls under 15 years old, married.

rate of early and forced marriages are also high in Europe, with the highest rates in Central and Eastern Europe, where 2.2 million girls are married before the age of 18. The highest rates are found in Georgia (17%) and Turkey (14%). At least 10% of adolescent girls are married before age 18 in Britain and France, which confirms, said the plan in the UK, early marriage is a global problem. Unit marriage Governments of the United Kingdom received over 1,700 calls from girls forced to risk last year.

• Allowing people to marry at the age of 18 is against the UN conventions and the practice is illegal in most countries, but others are turning a blind eye , particularly in the poorest communities.

But the consequences for children of children and the future are dire. It not only keeps them locked into a cycle of poverty, but also creates health problems and even death - a young girl of 15 is five times more likely to die during childbirth than a woman of 20

The children of young mothers are also more at risk. When a mother is under 18, your baby has 60% more likely to die before their first birthday of a baby born to a mother over 19 years.

Those working in the poorest countries are leading the child marriage as the key issue for development - not only as a violation of child rights, but also the severe consequences health and impact millions of girls forced to lose the opportunity of an education. The fight against child marriage successful could affect everything from the prevalence of child mortality and gender inequality.
British researchers surveyed Planning girls were married by age 10, often to much older men. Medina, 14, of Sudan, said: ... "I was forced to leave school to get married that divorce after eight months, I want other girls do not suffer like me''

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