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LETS END EARLY MARRIAGE!

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The issue of child marriage is addressed in a number of international conversations and gatherings. The conversations on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.  Early marriages are marriages that happen between people under the age of eighteen. Marriage before the age of eighteen is a fundamental violation of human rights. Worldwide, as many as 650million women alive today married before they turned eighteen. Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of eighteen, that’s 23 girls every minute, nearly 1 every 2 seconds. This is a gobal issue that needs to be solved. A lot of countries practice early marriages some includes Niger, Central African Republic, Chad, Bangladest etc. The perception that marriage will provide protection, family honor, social norms, customary or religious laws that condone the practice. These norms and religious laws describes early marriage as a good approach.         Early marriage cuts short the fun of teenage lif