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Society 3 years ago

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West Nusa Tenggara tackles child marriage through public education

Statistics Indonesia’s National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) from 2018 to 2020 reported an underage marriage prevalence of 15 percent among girls between the ages of 10 and 16 years.

Academia 3 years ago

A sustainable feminist recovery

Women and girls have been the first to lose out on jobs or schooling, taking on more unpaid care work, and facing skyrocketing levels of domestic and cyberabuse and child marriage.

Academia 4 years ago

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Why Islam rejects child marriage – and society should too

As the world enters the era of Industry 5.0, where “society” should act as the controller of technological development, it has turned out instead to uphold traditions and religious practices that seem to ignore common sense, including child marriage.

Opinion 4 years ago

For a safer world, put people before runaway military spending

To end our global arms addiction, decision-makers need to take a more human-centered approach to security.

Editorial 4 years ago

Spreading Kartini's light

More than a century since the death of women’s emancipation pioneer and national heroine Radeng Adjeng Kartini, we still have much work to do to shed light on women's rights and issues.

Opinion 4 years ago

To strengthen women’s leadership, we must strengthen their rights and choices

To enhance women’s ability to lead, and realize their potential in the fullest sense, they must first be empowered to be fully in charge of their own lives and bodies.

National 5 years ago

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Supreme Court introduces handbook on child marriage dispensations

The Supreme Court published on Friday a manual providing guidance to judges on underage marriage exemptions in courts, in a bid to curb child marriages in the country.

National 5 years ago

17-year-old marries 15-year-old in NTB, adding to long list of child marriages

The recent marriage of a 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has put a spotlight on the high prevalence of child marriages in the province.

National 5 years ago

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Child protection advocates fear spike in child marriages during pandemic

Experts and the nation’s child protection agency are urging the government to prevent a spike in child marriages during the COVID-19 health crisis, which they fear could exacerbate the problem.

World 5 years ago

Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage

Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services.

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child-marriage

PREMIUM West Nusa Tenggara tackles child marriage through public education

A sustainable feminist recovery

PREMIUM Why Islam rejects child marriage – and society should too

For a safer world, put people before runaway military spending

Spreading Kartini's light

To strengthen women’s leadership, we must strengthen their rights and choices

PREMIUM Supreme Court introduces handbook on child marriage dispensations

17-year-old marries 15-year-old in NTB, adding to long list of child marriages

PREMIUM Child protection advocates fear spike in child marriages during pandemic

Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage

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West Nusa Tenggara tackles child marriage through public education

PREMIUM
Why Islam rejects child marriage – and society should too

PREMIUM
Supreme Court introduces handbook on child marriage dispensations

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Child protection advocates fear spike in child marriages during pandemic