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11th Oct 2012 from Twitlonger
Today is the First International Day of the #Girl #Child #girlsday #UN
No girl should be forced to marry, rights experts urge on the International Day on the Girl Child
Every year an estimate of 10 million girls are married before they reach 18. Child marriage cuts across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. “Girls who are forced to marry are committed to being in slavery like marriages for the rest of their lives....In the most appalling of these cases, little girls as young as eight years old are being married off to men who may be three or four times their age," UN human rights experts today stress that forced early marriages cannot be justified on traditional, religious, cultural or economic grounds and should be criminalized.
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http://acnudh.org/?p=16207