Child brides in Mozambique: ‘an affront to human rights on a massive scale’ | Simon Allison | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/26/mozambique-child-marriage-african-girls-summit-lusaka-zambia
The African Girls’ Summit on ending child marriage, convened by the African Union (AU), is seeking to improve the lives of girls like Cidalia. The summit, being held in Lusaka, Zambia, this week, is the first of its kind in Africa, and is designed to put a stop to a practice that limits the prospects of girls across the continent. It is hoped the summit will secure concrete pledges from governments to tackle the problem.
“We must do away with child marriage. Girls who end up as brides at a tender age are coerced into having children while they are children themselves,” said the AU chairwoman, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
According to statistics from the UN children’s agency, Unicef, published on Thursday, the number of child brides in Africa is predicted to increase from 125 million to 310 million by 2050.
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