Abolition of Child Marriage Will Take 50 Years More: UNICEF
India
As child marriage is rooted in ancestral practices and traditions, it is very hard to change the mindsets and community rules.
Kolkata:
India has witnessed a decline in child marriage in the
last two decades, but going by the slow pace it will require another 50
years to abolish the practice from the country, according to UNICEF.
"Child
marriage has been declining at a rate of one per cent per year in the
last two decades, but at this rate it will be eliminated in 50 years or
so," UNICEF Child Protection Specialist in India Dora Giusti told PTI.
"This
is way too long and millions of girls will have married by then," she
warned describing the scenario in the country as "alarming".
