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Young Girls Fight Against Early Forced Marriage Globalgiving Adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities are using technology as a tool to raise their voice against early and forced marriage. 31 girls associated with the young women's leadership program at feminist approach to technology (fat) have made a film called todo bandishen (break the chains), which shows their daily struggles in countering this social menace. The problem of early marriage is a menace that unites all girls associated with the technical center at fat and this project. while their age varies between 14 and 25, the one experience that binds them all is the constant pressure to get married. it continues to be the biggest challenge and affects them greatly as entering marriage hood not.
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Girls Fight Against Early Forced Marriage Ph 2 Gl The law, oxfam pilipinas said, was a significant milestone in the philippines’ fight to end violence against women and girls and child, early and forced marriage. the law, it said, “will give. The united states is taking a whole of government approach to address the issue of child early forced marriage (cefm). our commitments demonstrate the concerted implementation of the u.s. strategy to prevent and respond to gender based violence globally and the usaid vision for action to end child marriage and meet the needs of married children. cefm projects are integrated into sector. 1 in 7 filipino girls marry before 18. child marriage, defined as marriage before the age of 18 years, is considered a violation of the un convention on the rights of the child, which the philippines ratified in 1990. the country’s own family code also sets the marriageable age at 18 years. and yet, 15% of young women aged 20 24 married. There are no specific laws in the philippines addressing child or forced marriage, and recent studies found that 14% of married women aged 20 24 reported that they were married before the age of 18. 7 the minimum age of marriage for certain religious and ethnic communities may contribute to situations of early and forced marriages in country.
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