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Addressing Early Marriage: Culturally Competent Practices And Romanian Roma (“Gypsy”) Communities, Judith Hale Reed
Addressing Early Marriage: Culturally Competent Practices And Romanian Roma (“Gypsy”) Communities, Judith Hale Reed
Judith A Hale Reed
Early marriage affects many communities around the world. Examples of commonly practiced early marriage can be found today in the U.S., India, Syria, and many other places. Although most countries have instituted minimum age laws for marriage, so that legal marriage can only occur after an age set by law, early marriage is still practiced for tradition, control, security, and other reasons. This article explores the harms of early marriage and the international instruments meant to defend against these harms in Part II. Part III reviews theoretical perspectives from legal anthropology and presents a case study of early marriage in …
Investing In The Future Of Pakistan: Understanding Why It Is Important To Ensure Protection Of The Rights Of Children Affected By Armed Conflicts, Nida Mahmood
Nida Mahmood Ms
This paper looks into the de facto compliance of Pakistani Laws with the optional protocol to the convention on rights of children on the involvement of children in armed conflicts and suggests why Pakistan should ratify this protocol as soon as possible.