India has 40% of world’s child brides | Global Human Rights Survey.

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India has 40% of world’s child brides, survey finds

Himanshi Dhawan, TNN | Sep 9, 2013, 05.21 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Jhumki's (name changed) red and white sakha-pola (wedding bangles) and sindoor jar sharply with her starched uniform. She was forced by her father to marry when she was barely 11 but she feels lucky to be allowed to attend school.


Forty-six per cent of women (between the ages of 18 and 29) in India were married before the age of 18, according to the National Family Health Survey-3. It is estimated that there are 23 million child brides in the country, around 40% of child brides globally. Global human rights NGO Breakthrough, working in districts of Hazaribagh and Gaya (in Bihar) and Ranchi in Jharkhand found that over 60% of women between the ages of 20-24 were married before 18.


Breakthrough, which launched its 'Nation Against Early Marriage' campaign in Ranchi recently, has so far reached 35,000 women and expects to expand the campaign nationwide and target 100,000 women in the coming months. The NGO — which had spearheaded the successful 'bell bajao' campaign against domestic violence — hopes to change the culture that drives and perpetuates early marriage to replace it with one where the lives, rights and personhood of girls is valued. Worldwide, 60 million girls become child brides every year, of which around 30 million belong to South Asia alone.


'140 million child brides by 2020 likely'


According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), if the trends continue between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, of which at least 18.5 million will be under the age of 15. Breakthrough vice-president Sonali Khan said, "This issue came up when we were working with communities in Bihar and Jharkhand. Under-age girls are incapable of negotiating domestic violence, are deprived of early health and reproductive rights. This later has implications on child and maternal mortality."


According to the NGO's data, the trend is worse in rural areas. In Jharkhand, 71% of girls in rural areas were married before 18 years compared to 33% in urban areas. In Bihar, 65.2% of girls were married before 18 years compared to 37% in urban areas. Breakthrough is working with communities where the average age of marriage ranges between 15.1 and 16.4 and cohabitation also happens before the girl is 17. "Our on-?eld trainings that began in April 2013 have witnessed an average participation of 200 middle and high school level students per session. We have targeted fathers or male members of the family who usually make the decision for the young girl. But it is a slow process," Khan said. The NGO uses mobile vans, panchayats and folk theatre as medium to create communication tools

India has 40% of world’s child brides | Times of India

 

[Skies]

"Not all that shines is gold" is the epitome of India. They have got many serious problems from their inside.

 

[Spring Onion]

isn't 40% a bit too high

 

[Fattyacids]

India is a country of contradiction, it proudly calls itself the world's largest democracy but it's also the biggest violator of children's human rights.

 

[harpoon]

I think we should follow the examples of other countries and lower the legal marriageable age for girls from 18 to 15 or 16.....Problem Solved.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Getting married too early can only lead to financial difficulties. In my opinion, people in their early twenties are too early to marry as their financial foundations are yet to be set, not to mention the mental maturity of these people.
The way I see it,

1-12 = childhood
13-21 = serious education time including university + part time work
21+ = serious work, accumulate, see world and live as individual.
30+ = get married, no more fooking around.
65+ = retirement.
80+ = troll PDF, call everyone else 'pup', accumulate tens of thousands of posts.

 

[Kompromat]

The areas of India where this practice is rampant, what is the % of literacy there?

@third eye @Peshwa

 

[Sashan]

The areas of India where this practice is rampant, what is the % of literacy there?

@third eye @Peshwa

The places mentioned in the article in Bihar and Jharkhand are some of the most backward areas in India with very low rankings in terms of most social indices compared to other parts of India.

 

[Srinivas]

Most of them are from Muslims who want to marry early. Some villages do have this tradition.

 

[El Weirdo]

Most of them are from Muslims who want to marry early. Some villages do have this tradition.

I wont say that , this problem is rampant in Rajputs from Rajastan and Jaats from haryana too !!

 

[AUz]

Most of them are from Muslims who want to marry early. Some villages do have this tradition.

Source?

I think most of them are from hindus who hate their girls. So they murder innocent girls because they are 'girls', the inferior being (no wonder 10 million+ girls have been murdered by hindus)..Hindus, who do not kill their girls, then go on and rape their girls (and others too)...Sometimes, even their own sisters and mothers...its common among hindus...

Lastly, when they are done doing that, they hate girls so much that they just marry them of and throw them out of their house...I guess this is the reason why child brides are so common in india..

Well, i say child bride are still better than raping girls, and putting steel rodes in their vaginas to tear their stomach out (like hindus did to a girl just for fun)....

 

[veekysingh]

well 90% of of Muslim marriage will be counted as child marriage cause even by the law(of course because of they being minority they make thr own law and follow it) age is just 16 for girl. and then some parts of Bihar and west Bangal Whig hv high nbet of poors do these things and tribal areas like jharkhand + Odisa +M.P ppl are used to get married in very early age.

 

[Ayush]

nice cleaning up by mods..

 

[naveen mishra]

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[Fattyacids]

Most non-Muslim child brides in India are not sent off to their in-laws before they turn 18. they might be married in childhood but stay with their parents. this was said in a CNN TV channel debate on OPIUM BRIDES documentary on Pakistan/Afghanistan where young girls of poor parents are married off to old men fit enough to be their grandfathers and these girls become pregnant before they turn 10. See Opium Brides on CNN by an Afghan director. The Chinese Maoists and Muslims are masters of cover-up and deceit, stealth. Hence they are allies.

We are not responsible for the actions of 200 million Muslims in India. if India brings down the number of Muslims to 10-20 million, the crime rate in India will drop to virtual zero as Muslims pollute non-Muslim minds with their talk and playing Arabic songs from mosques.

E.g. Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of the founder of Taj Mahal.

On June 17th 1631 Mumtaz Mahal, the beloved wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan died while giving birth to their fourteenth child, a daughter, in Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Tigers, dogs and cats and many other animals have no rights in China and hence this country is very very primitive which eats dog and cat meat and has destroyed all wildlife like tigers by following a very primitive mumbo-jumbo unscientific traditional Chinese medicine system.

Kill Chinese to save Tigers.
Kill Muslims to save human values.

What about your fav story about Mao and 1000 virgins? Please post it again.