CHILD marriageTEENAGE girlsSOCIAL servicesChild marriage is a prevalent phenomenon in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Zambia is one with the highest rate of child marriages, with 1.7 million child brides. This study investigates the contribution of UNICE...
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) recently conducted research in Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia to contribute to greater understanding of the drivers of child marriage in each of these contexts. Synthesizing findings from 4 diverse countries provides a useful opportunity to ...
Shabana Azmi, chairperson of ActionAid India, told the Press Trust of India (PTI) that patriarchy was at the root of child marriage, which needs to be tackled to eliminate child marriage. In India, the patriarchal notion of marrying the girl as a virgin at a young age prevails and serves...
将“child marriage"翻译成西班牙文 el matrimonio infantil, matrimonio infantil是“child marriage"到 西班牙文 的最佳翻译。 译文示例:To combat child marriage States must incriminate all child marriages under the age of 18. ↔ Para combatir el matrimonio infantil, los Estados deben penalizar todos...
“By ending child marriage we want to create equality between the sexes. A woman should take a leading role in society,” says Charity, a 24 year old youth activist who has been campaigning for an end to child marriage in Malawi. As large part of the population of Zambia lives in rural...
Drivers of child marriage in specific settings of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia - findings from the Yes I Do! baseline study BackgroundChild marriage persists in many countries and has severe impacts on health, education, economic and social status of girls. Child marr...
Yet, more than 130 million girls are out of school around the world today.Think about that loss of potential for these girls and society as a whole. It has been proven that keeping girls in school will have a ripple effect throughout their community by delaying an early marriage, childbirth...
“Ring” your future, without changing diaper - can preventing teenage pregnancy address child marriage in Zambia? PLoS One, 13 (2018), pp. 1-17 CrossrefGoogle Scholar [50] S. Lee-Rife, A. Malhotra, A. Warner, A.M. Glinski What works to prevent child marriage: A review of the evide...
Economists have recognized for some time that bargaining takes place within marriage and that resource allocation within marriage depends on the relative bargaining strength of the couple.1 A critical feature of bargaining frameworks is the threat point in case of bargaining failure.2 Threat points wit...
Emerging research has only given considerable attention to the socio-economic factors associated with first premarital childbearing in Africa, its implications for the marriageability of single mothers, and child health [1, 4,5,6, 11, 14, 20]. While it seems at least plausible to assume that ...