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Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is an international non-governmental organization with the mission to end child marriage throughout the world. [1] The organization was created by The Elders to enable small groups from around the world to address the common issue of early marriage.
A 2014 Human Rights Watch report found that "one out of two girls in [Malawi] on average was married by her 18th birthday". [5] Memory Banda has played an influential role at both community, national and recently international level, including presentation of a TED talk, [6] speaking at the 59th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, [7] and at the Oslo Freedom Forum. [8]
In 2013, then at age 10, al-Ahdal uploaded a 2.5 minute video to YouTube which quickly went viral. In the video, al-Ahdal accused her parents of trying to get her married in exchange for money. [6] The video was released with al-Ahdal speaking Arabic, but a YouTube user translated the video and uploaded it to YouTube with English captions.
VIS Social Impact, Pedro Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo, and Spanish production company Mogambo (“1917”) are co-producing documentary series “Not a Bride.” The four-part series ...
Sitara: Let Girls Dream (Urdu: ستارہ: لڑکیوں کو خواب دیکھنے دو) is a 2020 Pakistani animated short film directed and written by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The film attempts to spotlight the issue of child marriage .
Only one adult out of ten was a woman, and most girls over 15 were already engaged. White men, and women of the Salish tribes, did not always feel mutually attracted. Prostitutes were also scarce, until the arrival of John Pennell and his brothel from San Francisco. In 1864, Asa Mercer decided to go east to find women willing to relocate to ...
In 2017 in Sudan, 34% of girls were married off before they turned 18 years old. 12% were married before they turned 15. [1] Sudan is the 29th highest nation in the world for child marriage. Legal age of marriage
Data from Girls not Brides offers the figures that 13% of Syrian girls are married before the age of 18, and 2% are married before their 15th birthday. Furthermore, the most recent available data shows that child marriage was most prevalent in Daraa (where 26% of women aged 20–49 were married before the age of 18), rural Damascus (25%) and ...