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Child Marriage Why We Should Care

Child Marriage Why We Should Care. Presented by Kristin Koblis and Ela Pandya. Sustainable Development Goal 5. “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. Sustainable Development Goal 5. Target #3:

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Child Marriage Why We Should Care

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  1. Child Marriage Why We Should Care Presented by Kristin Koblis and Ela Pandya

  2. Sustainable Development Goal 5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”

  3. Sustainable Development Goal 5 Target #3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as early and forced child marriages and genital mutilation, by 2030.

  4. Effects of Child Marriage • Isolates young girls, making them dependent and helpless • Deprives them of fundamental rights to education and safety • Affects reproductive health • Higher risk of poor health- complications of child-birth, HIV, etc. • Higher risk of facing domestic violence, sexual abuse, economic dependence, poverty, divorce (with no resources after it) • Next generation also gets stuck in same cycle

  5. Causes of Child Marriage • A way to ease economic hardship by transferring the ‘burden’ to her husband’s family • Traditions, cultural expectations, or right of passage • Belief that marriage will provide a secure and better future • A coping mechanism in the face of poverty and violence

  6. Status of Child Marriage in 12 Countries

  7. ZI’s Strategies for Ending Child Marriage • Build skills and knowledge of girls that are at risk for child marriage. • Support households in demonstrating positive attitude towards adolescent girls. • Strengthen systems that deliver services to adolescent girls. • Ensure laws and policies that protect and promote adolescent girls. • Generate and use robust data to inform programs and policies related to adolescent girls.

  8. Status of Child Marriage in the U.S. • Individual states have jurisdictions over the marriage laws that are inconsistent. • Although each state has set a minimum age, there are many loopholes to go around this requirement. • Between 2000 and 2010, over 248,000 children under age 18 were married. • Including minors as young as 12 years old • 77% of them were girls married to adult men • Immigration law has no minimum age requirement for spouse/fiance visa. Source: Unchained At Last www.unchainedatlast.org

  9. Loopholes In Marriage Laws in U.S. Source: Tahirih Justice Center – Falling Through the Cracks, How Laws Allow Child Marriage to Happen in Today’s America August 2017

  10. Youngest Ages to get Married in the U.S. Source: Tahirih Justice Center

  11. What can we do? • Support ZI’s End Child Marriage Project • Spread awareness about the issue of Child Marriage through social media, flyers, programs • Research Child Marriage Laws in your State • Contact your elected officials to have them introduce bills to eliminate loopholes, or support bills that are already on the floor • Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper

  12. Don’t Let the Next Generation Get Stuck in the Same Cycle

  13. To Child Marriage! Thank you for your dedication to Zonta

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