Covid’s impact could mean millions more child marriages: Unicef ...Middle East

WASHINGTON, March 8: The outsized impact Covid-19 has had on women in some countries could result in an additional 10 million child marriages in this decade, according to a new analysis released Monday by Unicef.“School closures, economic stress, service disruptions, pregnancy and parental deaths due to the pandemic are putting the most vulnerable girls at increased risk of child marriage,“ said a study titled “Covid-19: A threat to progress against child marriage.”That trend, if confirmed, would represent a serious retreat from recent years of progress against child marriage.In the last 10 years, according to the study, the proportion of young women globally who were married as children had

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