Through. 3 more. People we have. Lets have a look at some of the other mountains around you still shaking in their groove to breathe a sigh of relief so you dont want to. Go. To w. This is d. That means africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the children forced into marriage well bring you the story of a child bride in nigeria who was locked up by her family after she refused to return to a husband. And zimbabwes backstreet doc says and this is all striking so women are turning to unqualified midwives to deliver their babies. Hello im Christine Wonderwall come to africa its good to have you along if youre a girl born in nigeria theres a good chance youll be married before youre 18 years old thats because nigeria has one of the highest number of Child Marriages in the world thats according to the u. N. Were talking about this as the world mocks thursday the 30th Anniversary off the convention of the rights of the child as we report the rights of many girls in nigeria of being violated.
anyone under the age of 18 from. getting married she and 2 friends have started an online petition to bring the issue to the senate floor the next step would be to get to the root of the problem and try to educate the member women and everyone perpetrating this are there are millions of girls who are married off every year and if those millions of girls were millions of people out it s nigeria s workforce the g.d.p. and he would be in a much better standing than it is now. a son has been transferred to the psychiatric hospital the doctors say it will take months to stabilize her it s unclear how long the government will finance or treatment into the her family will be held accountable for the damage it has done. i spoke to 15 year old campaign a emmanuelle a gun deficit from ghana as she has been researching child marriage in her community i began by asking her what she found out. i got to know down to