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Every minut 28 under age got married There are around 50 countries whose laws allow the teenager's marriage. .In 2008 an activist group created a NGO to fight agaisnt the children's marriage in Malawi. Nowadays they are celebrating their first success: The Parliament has banned the marriage of girls under 18. Although it's a great new, there are countries where the poverty and the tradition have more strength and this king of marriage is allowed. Every year 15 milions of teenagers under 15 become married women. According to Unicef, nowadays there are 720 milions of women that had marriage when they were children. In the black list of countries that allow these type of marriages there are: Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, Sudan
Mar 1, 2015 7:55 AM
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Every minute 28 minors get married

There are around 50 countries whose laws allow teenage marriage. In 2008 an activist group created an NGO to fight agaisnt childhood marriage in Malawi. Now they are celebrating their first success.The Parliament has banned the marriage of girls under the age of 18. Although it's great news, there are still countries where poverty and the tradition have more strength and this kind of marriage is allowed.

Every year 15 milion teenagers under the age of 15 become married women. According to Unicef, there are 720 milion women that got married when they were children. The list of countries that allow these types of marriages there are as follows-: Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, Sudan.

March 1, 2015

Every minute 28 minors get married ["uderage" is an adjective rather than a noun.]

There are around 50 countries whose laws allow teenage [adolescent] marriage. .In 2008 an activist group created an NGO [since it's pronounced as "en-ge-oh"] to fight agaisnt child marriage in Malawi. Now they are celebrating their first success: The Parliament has banned the marriage of girls under [age] 18. Although it's a great new great news [always plural], there are countries where the poverty and the tradition have more strength and this kind of marriage is allowed.
Every year 15 million teenagers under 15 become married women [¿and men?]. According to Unicef, nowadays there are 720 milions of women that were married when they were children. In the black list of countries that allow this type of marriages there are: Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, and Sudan [In English, an "and" or "or" is almost always written before the final item on a list in a sentence.]

March 1, 2015

Every minute 28 minors get married

 

There are around 50 countries whose laws allow teenage marriage. In 2008 an activist group created an NGO to fight agaisnt childhood marriage in Malawi. Nowadays they are celebrating their first success.The Parliament has banned the marriage of girls under the age of 18. Although it's a great news, there are still countries where the poverty and the tradition have more strength and this kind of marriage is allowed. 

Every year 15 milion teenagers under the age of 15 become married women. According to Unicef, there are 720 milion women that got married when they were children. The list of countries that allow these types of marriages there are as follows-: Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, Sudan.

March 1, 2015
I live in South Africa and here it's also legal for young girls from African cultures to get married (the last one I heard of was 12) as long as the parents provide consent. It's really sad.
March 1, 2015
Thanks! I'll check out it
March 1, 2015
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