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21 hours ago · Amidst all the world’s bad news, good news was heralded from Sierra Leone last week about the outlawing of child brides, where one third of girls are forcibly married off before the age of eighteen, leading to a high number of maternal deaths (because of premature pregnancy). Child marriage is a longstanding, pagan practice in many African ...
5 days ago · South Asia has the largest number of child brides, about 290 million people, or 45 percent of the global total. Sub-Saharan Africa follows with about 127 million people, 20 percent.
5 days ago · FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A bill that bans child marriage in Sierra Leone has been signed into law, President Julius Maada Bio said late Tuesday, in an effort to protect girls in the West...
1 day ago · During production, Chaplin seduced Grey, promising to later marry her. However, when Grey became pregnant, he threatened her at gunpoint to have an abortion. She refused, so he fired her and recast the role with 24-year-old actress Georgia Hale. Chaplin Married Grey to Avoid Statutory Rape Conviction.
1 day ago · History. In 1533, 17-year-old Princess Emilia of Saxony was wed to George the Pious, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, then aged 48 years. Early marriages have been common in historical times, including in Europe.
1 day ago · The youngest daughter of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro has opened up about sexual abuse by her stepfather and the deep hurt she felt when her mother chose to support her husband instead of her child. In a first-person essay published in The Toronto Star on Sunday, Andrea Robin Skinner described how the Nobel Prize-winning short story ...
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3 days ago · Child marriage – any marriage involving a person under 18-years-old – is now illegal in Sierra Leone. According to UN data, nearly a million young women in the West African nation were married before they turned 18.
