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With the help of her brother, Jackline escaped a forced marriage to a rescue center full of girls from similar situations. There, they formed a sisterhood and began their path to education.
Teen Mary Mukami knows that the key to success for women in her country is education. But what she doesn’t understand is girls’ own inability to keep their eye on the prize.
No matter how much money or awareness Awa Soumahoro raises, she can’t prevent her 19-year-old cousin from being forced into marriage.
Even though teen writer Zahra W. says “people don’t believe in love” in Afghanistan, for her, life without love is “less sweet.”
Girls’ dreams get unfulfilled in Afghanistan when they are forced to marry men twice their age. Here, Afghan teen Arifa writers about her country where “women are like property to be exchanged or slaves to follow orders.”
One girl at a time, the Kaya Girls Center is working to combat child marriage, which impacts 61 percent of rural girls in the country, says Ritu Sharma in “Teach a Woman to Fish.” In this excerpt, the members try to help a 13-year-old in a red shirt.
Next week’s major meeting in London on child marriage and FGM should emphasize evaluating and monitoring programs in these areas so we can more effectively promote girls’ human rights.
Early marriages are subject to special pressures in the unstable conditions of refugee camp life in Jordan. The divorces that follow can be complicated by the questionable legal standing in which marriages are conducted.
Religious court data show a growing share of Jordanian marriage licenses going to Syrian female minors in the past three years. But the debate in the international aid community is whether early marriage is worsening for Syrian refugee girls or just being exposed by the crisis.