Multimedia Collection
Young Wives' Tales: Ethiopia
(A Question of Rights series)
VHS
15 minutes
HQ1236 .Y681 1998
Nibret is just 11 years old. She is being married to a man she has mever met before - to cement family ties, secure property, and because there are no schools to provide her with any other choice. What are her chances of surviving the experience?
Despite international treaties to protect women's and children's rights, recent statistics show that early marriage is on the increase in many parts of the world, with girls as young as eight or nine married off in areas of North and West Africa, the Sahel and Latin America. This increases exponentially the risk of complications from pregnancy and childbirth for girls whose bodies are not fully developed.
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