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.
administration would be forced marriage is a most of this is not done there s an islamic perspective the ad done based on perspective she says education is key to change outdated practices and support women s rights. then why does a leader that is not all. is something that has to do with advancement so are the laws can be amended and can be seeing. that the condition of the. child marriage exists elsewhere in nigeria to here in lagos poverty drives some parents to marry daughters of under 18. is privileged in many ways but that doesn t stop the 17 year old from raising her voice against child marriage his son a story makes are angry a lot of nigerians don t view women as human beings view them as. i did and it is to them susan wants to amend the constitution so that it bars
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
husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4. a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you re born a girl here there s a 44 percent probability that you will be married before your 18th birthday. this neighbor knows her santa he says at the age of 15 she wasn t too young to be married he would marry his daughters off much younger. sons and what age. 60. 2 we had this. by the attention gold margaret. this is. a fierce advocate for women s and children s rights she hopes to be free and happy is muslim herself she says the koran does not justify this practice at dallas no pacific or any findings or any security that proved those things the
hello i m christine wonderwall come to africa it s good to have you along if you re a girl born in nigeria there s a good chance you ll be married before you re 18 years old that s because nigeria has one of the highest number of child marriages in the world that s according to the u.n. we re 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. a muslim neighborhood in kaduna a city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years without much light or food and left on her own her name is her sana she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her