Child Marriage

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• Malawi : Une chef de district annule 850 mariages précoces et renvoie les jeunes filles à l’école
  20 avril 2016, par siawi3

  Pionnière dans la lutte pour les droits de la femme et des enfants au Malawi, Theresa Kachindamoto a brisé 850 mariages précoces pour renvoyer les filles à l’école. « Une fois qu’elles ont terminé leurs études, elles peuvent être et faire ce qu’elles veulent »

• Côte d’Ivoire : Mariage forcé : 40% des filles mariées avant l’âge de 18 ans
  13 décembre 2017, par siawi3

  Conséquences : dégradation de la santé sexuelle, grossesses précoces, accouchements à risques, Vih/Sida, infections sexuellement transmissibles, marginalisation des filles victimes, décrochage scolaire, traumatisme, suicide, fragilisation...

• Iran: Child marriage
  15 June 2013, by siawi3

  Married little girls instead of, joy, sports, education and enjoying their childhood play the role of a wife and sexual partner and take serious responsibility of housewife while the experience pregnancy and child delivery is imposed on them which has high-risks and complications for them and their children.

• Iraqi Islamists MPs’ proposal would allow child marriages
  19 November 2017, by siawi3

  Iraq’s parliament is considering an amendment that opponents say would severely violate the rights of women and children and send the country’s legal system back to a “primitive era.”

• Pressure mounts on Sudan to pardon teen bride for killing ’rapist’ husband
  17 May 2018, by siawi3

  Hussein’s lawyers said they are preparing to appeal against the court’s decision and have until May 25 to do so. The UN Women, UN Population Fund and UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa on Sunday appealed to President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government for clemency for Hussein.

• #JusticeForNoura
  13 mai 2018, par siawi3

  J’ai lancé cette pétition pour demander au gouvernement soudanais de ne pas l’exécuter. Il ne reste plus que 15 jours pour faire appel de sa condamnation.

• ‘Justice for Noura’ outrage at Sudan death...
  13 May 2018, by siawi3

  ‘Justice for Noura’ outrage at Sudan death sentence for girl allegedly raped
  Several activists changed their profile pictures on Twitter and Facebook to a painting depicting a white veil and three clenched female fists, to show solidarity with Hammad.

• Sudan: Global solidarity with Noura Hussein Ahmed, child bride forced into marriage
  14 May 2018, by siawi3

  This is a case of child marriage, forced marriage, gang rape, and killing in self-defense. Sudanese law as well as international law both criminalize forced marriage of underage girls. Rights defenders are calling for an annulment of the judgment and a due process, taking into account all the mitigating circumstances that surround the husband death, including human rights abuse, rape, forced marriage, child marriage. They also ask that the state of terror and mental instability in which she must have fallen after the gang rape be considered.

• Sudan: How to help Noura in Sudan and similar cases?
  17 May 2018, by siawi3

  Progressive forces exist everywhere in Muslim contexts, just as they do elsewhere. But they are little considered outside their countries – especially in the West which globally tends to ignore them. Noura’s case is a good opportunity to reach out in solidarity to progressive, feminist, humanist, secular forces in our parts of the world. It is an opportunity to create working links that would last even after we save Noura’s life - as I am now convinced we will, collectively.

• Tunisie : Indignation après l’autorisation d’un mariage d’une jeune fille de 13 ans enceinte d’un proche
  14 décembre 2016, par siawi3

  « Nous avons considéré qu’elle était apte au mariage. La preuve, elle est enceinte ». Les associations de protection de l’enfance jugent, elles, que la jeune fille a été violée...

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