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"Mr President, earlier this year Malawi, to its very great credit, banned forced child marriage. This was a tremendous victory in a country which has one of the highest rates of forced child marriage in the world.
One of the leading campaigners for this tremendous change was an 18-year-old woman called Memory Banda, who started her advocacy on the issue when her own sister was married at the age of 11 to a man in his early thirties. The sister is now 16 and she has three children. Memory herself has said, ‘Marriage is often the end for girls like me, but, if our leaders will invest in us and give us the chance to be educated, we will become women who create a better society for everyone.’
However, passing laws is not the end of the story, for even when child marriage is illegal it is still common. In India it is illegal for girls under 18 to be married, yet UNICEF estimates that around 47% of girls in India were married before they turned 18. Simply changing the law is not enough: information, awareness and education campaigns are crucially important to stamp out this terrible practice.
We are all agreed on this, and the EU has a real role to play here – to go out and do absolutely everything we possibly can to end this barbaric and cruel practice."@en1
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