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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Child Marriage Legislation In The Asia-Pacific Region, Elisa Scolaro, Aleksandra Blagojevic, Brigitte Fillion, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Lale Say, Joar Svanemyr, Marleen Temmerman
Child Marriage Legislation In The Asia-Pacific Region, Elisa Scolaro, Aleksandra Blagojevic, Brigitte Fillion, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Lale Say, Joar Svanemyr, Marleen Temmerman
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa
Child marriage is a human rights violation that robs a girl of her childhood, puts her health, growth, and development at risk, disrupts her education, limits her opportunities for empowerment and social development, and increases her risk of exposure to violence and abuse (for a review of the evidence on the negative effects of child marriage on girls and their children, see Parsons et al. 2015, in this issue). While child marriage is not mentioned specifically in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention does contain a provision requiring governments to abolish “traditional practices prejudicial …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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