How to Fight Child Marriage in Nepal

Monday, March 2nd, 2015 by Raluca Besliu
How to Fight Child Marriage in Nepal

A 2014 UNICEF report emphasized that Nepal is still among the top ten countries in the world, where child marriage is practiced. A staggering forty-one percent of girls marry before turning eighteen, while ten percent wed by the age of fifteen. Early weddings cause considerable hardships for girls, many of whom drop out of school and face domestic & sexual […]

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