The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 142 million girls will marry young Worldwide between 2011 and 2020 and an additional 151 million girls will marry young in the following decade Child marriage affects global development. Time to end it: http://wrld.bg/Ts9d306DEz2
Making sense of child marriage in Lebanon
Child marriage has emerged as a negative coping strategy among Syrian families who have been forcibly displaced to Lebanon as a result of Syria’s ongoing conflict. Child marriage has profound implications, not just for the girl and for her physical, psychological and socioeconomic well-being, but al…
