Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well‐being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over ...
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’...
Journal of Public HealthNasrullah M, Zakar R, Zakar MZ, et al: Girl-child marriage and its association with morbidity and mortality of children under 5 years of age in a nationally-representative sample of Pakistan. J Pediatr 2014; 164:639...
Hadiqa Bashir is a 14 year old with a cause - she wants to end child marriage in her community. 14岁的Hadiqa Bashir怀揣理想,她想让儿童婚姻从自己生活的社区里彻底消失。 After school, she goes to other neighbourhoods in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley to raise awareness. 每天放学后,她...
"child marriage", "early marriage", "forced marriage", "married adolescents", and the foreign language equivalents. in the case of publications in spanish or portuguese about latin america or the caribbean, where informal meetings or unions are so common, we included publications focused on ...
There has been little in-depth exploration of varieties of masculinity and how these may influence men's views of child-bearing or fertility preferences. This study used Participatory Ethnographic and Evaluation Research to explore married men's (aged 18 to 45聽years) perceptions of marriage, ...
Hadiqa Bashir is a 14 year old witha cause- she wants to end child marriage in her community. After school, she goes to otherneighbourhoodsin Pakistan's north-western Swat valleyto raise awareness. Such marriages are consideredthe normfor keeping land in the family orsettlingdisputes. ...
In India,47% of girlsmarry before age 18. Although it doesn’t have the highest percentage of child brides in the world, it has the highest number, due to population. Source:Gender Focus Child marriage is an economic problem as well. If only half the population has full access to school...
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 ...
In a yearlong project, Voice of America met with child brides from Albania to Pakistan to Tanzania. They put faces and voices on apracticethat the United Nations is trying to end by 2030. Ending child marriage is critical to improving worldwide health, ending poverty and expanding human rights...