Civil society is proposing the creation of a single, specific budget to combat early unions in the country. According to the executive director of the Civil Society Forum for Children's Rights, Benilde Nhalivilo, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), in Maputo, at the Conference on the System for Guaranteeing the Rights of Children and...
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Cabo Delgado: 20% of girls live in early unions
More than 20% of girls under the age of 16 live in situations of premature marriage in Namuno, Balama, Chiúre and Ancuabe in Cabo Delgado Province. The information was given in the city of Pemba by the Provincial Director of Transport and Communications, Nelson Pereira, on Wednesday, during the closing ceremony of the UHOLO-Girls and...
"Poverty and terrorism increase premature marriages in Cabo Delgado" - NGO
Save The Children, a non-governmental organization (NGO) for the defense of children's rights, says that a study carried out in 2023 in the districts of Palma and Chiúre, in the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, points to an increase of 10%, compared to the previous year, in premature unions associated with poverty and terrorist attacks....
Premature Unions: Finland Disburses Nine Million Euros for the Protection of Girls
Five provinces in Mozambique are receiving nine million euros a year from Finland to fund activities to protect and support girls who are victims of early marriages. According to the Finnish ambassador to Mozambique, Anna Kaisa, the programs are being implemented in the provinces of Manica, Zambézia, Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Nampula. The aim of this program is...
More than 800 women denounced sexual crimes and premature unions in Manica courts
The women filed 450 lawsuits, including crimes for early unions, and 392 lawsuits for violence, including sexual violence, against women, girls and children in various districts of Manica province. The victims of abuse are assisted by the "Viva Mais" program, an initiative with a legal component, mainly focused on the human rights of the Foundation...
Activists warn that observation of minors' human rights is precarious
Domestic violence, child labor, early unions, sexual violation and illiteracy are some examples of the abuses to which many children are subjected a little around the world. In Mozambique, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) indicate that, in the period between 2019 and 2020, 46.4% of girls between 15 and...
Premature marriage rate among displaced children in Cabo Delgado doubles
The number of premature unions among children displaced by terrorism in Cabo Delgado province has doubled in the last six months in accommodation centers and resettlement neighborhoods in all districts, new data released Tuesday, 17, by the humanitarian organization Save The Children indicate. To VOA, the organization said that between January and March...