Rights of the Child: Children Tortured and Raped in Jails across Pakistan ; Ten Years after World Leaders Pledged to Act, the Suffering of Children around the World Is as Bad and Frequent as EverTHE POLICE picked up Ghulam Jilani from his parents' home on the morning of 12 May 1998. ...
This simplified framework, which draws on a review of the literature, expert consultations, and case studies in three countries, proposes five interrelated drivers of child marriage: poverty and economic factors; lack of opportunity; social norms and attitudes; lack of agency; and fear of girls’...
One of the most devastating effects of the One Child Policy and sex ratio imbalance is a sharp uptake in demand for sex trafficking to China, particularly forced prostitution and trafficking for marriage. More sex trafficking in China may spell disaster not only for hundreds of thousands of ...
United Kingdom: TheForced Marriage Act, which was made law in 2007 in the UK, allows a girl who is at risk of being taken to another country for a forced marriage to get an order of protection against her parents. Source:Wordpress United States:Jesse Bender, a thirteen-year-old girl fr...
He said marriages involving minors were “unfortunately a reality” in Turkey but that the men involved “were not rapists or sexual aggressors.” The legal age of consent in Turkey is 18 but child marriage is widespread, especially in the southeast. ...
3Harriet Fraad, “Economy and Psychology: A Marriage in Trouble.” The Journal of Psychohistory 38(2011): 202. 4Lloyd deMause, The Emotional Life of Nations. New York: Other Press, 2002, p. 339; Lloyd deMause, “What the British Can Do To End Child Abuse.” The Journal of...
As explained in the background, countries have cross-border responsibilities for child rights in other countries, are duty bearers, and are required to act in terms of international cooperation to ensure all children have their rights fulfilled. In view of these obligations and the finding that ...
Pleas on same-sex marriage: Centre’s vehement insistence on considering preliminary objection first draws sharp comments from SC Ashkkar Soudaan Mammootty’s doppelganger goes viral on internet 7 cops, including DSP, booked in Kerala for 2017 police high-handedness case Kerala: Station House Of...
and infectious morbidity.11 In societies in which most births are within a marital relationship, interventions to increase the age at marriage and first pregnancy are important.12 Evidence suggests that programmes for adolescent mothers can reduce repeat adolescent pregnancies by 37% (95% CI 12–51...
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