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12/10/2016
The figures have been released by charity Save The Children as part of their 'Every Last Girl: Free To Live, Free To Learn, Free From Harm' report.
The study has ranked countries according to issues such as child marriage, schooling, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and number of female MPs.
Countries at the bottom of the index include Chad, Mail, Niger and Somalia, while countries at the top of the index include Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The UK ranked 15th out of 144 countries.
Elsewhere, the report found that girls as young as 10 are being forced to marry men who are, quite often, a lot older than themselves. It also revealed that girls are disproportionately affected by conflict, with many refugee families marrying off their daughters as a safety or coping mechanism, such as Syrian girls in Lebanon.
Girls from poor families are also more likely to be married early than their richer peers. For example, in Nigeria, 40% of the poorest girls are married by the age of 15. This compares to 3% of the richest. Girls suffer most during crises, such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, where schools shutting down led to an estimated 14,000 teen pregnancies.
Of any country, India has the highest number of child marriages, partly owing to the size of its population, with 47% of girls married under 18 (around 24.6 million).
One girl under the age of 15 is said to be married every seven seconds, but one girl under 18 is married every two seconds.
While there are pledges to end child marriage by 2030, it has been reported that if current trends continue, the total number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to around 950 million by 2030. By 2050, this figure could reach 1.2 billion.
Commenting on the findings, Kevin Watkins, CEO, Save The Children, said: "Child marriage isn't just a form of discrimination, it's a form of violence.
"Forcing girls to marry much older men robs them of their freedom and amounts to sexual slavery. Instead of being in school, married girls face domestic violence, abuse and rape.
"They fall pregnant and are exposed to STIs including HIV. Bearing children before their bodies are ready means girls suffer complicated deliveries and even death."
(JP/LM)
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1 Girl Under 15 'Married Every Seven Seconds'
A new report has revealed that one girl, under the age of 15, is married every seven seconds.The figures have been released by charity Save The Children as part of their 'Every Last Girl: Free To Live, Free To Learn, Free From Harm' report.
The study has ranked countries according to issues such as child marriage, schooling, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and number of female MPs.
Countries at the bottom of the index include Chad, Mail, Niger and Somalia, while countries at the top of the index include Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The UK ranked 15th out of 144 countries.
Elsewhere, the report found that girls as young as 10 are being forced to marry men who are, quite often, a lot older than themselves. It also revealed that girls are disproportionately affected by conflict, with many refugee families marrying off their daughters as a safety or coping mechanism, such as Syrian girls in Lebanon.
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Girls from poor families are also more likely to be married early than their richer peers. For example, in Nigeria, 40% of the poorest girls are married by the age of 15. This compares to 3% of the richest. Girls suffer most during crises, such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, where schools shutting down led to an estimated 14,000 teen pregnancies.
Of any country, India has the highest number of child marriages, partly owing to the size of its population, with 47% of girls married under 18 (around 24.6 million).
One girl under the age of 15 is said to be married every seven seconds, but one girl under 18 is married every two seconds.
While there are pledges to end child marriage by 2030, it has been reported that if current trends continue, the total number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to around 950 million by 2030. By 2050, this figure could reach 1.2 billion.
Commenting on the findings, Kevin Watkins, CEO, Save The Children, said: "Child marriage isn't just a form of discrimination, it's a form of violence.
"Forcing girls to marry much older men robs them of their freedom and amounts to sexual slavery. Instead of being in school, married girls face domestic violence, abuse and rape.
"They fall pregnant and are exposed to STIs including HIV. Bearing children before their bodies are ready means girls suffer complicated deliveries and even death."
(JP/LM)
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