UNESCO: Half a million girls are forced into child marriage

The Education, Science and Culture Organization of the United Nations "UNESCO" confirmed the suffering of many girls from the crisis of early marriage in childhood, and UNESCO said on its official Twitter account that there are 500 thousand girls forced into child marriage, and this number reflects the danger of 500 thousand Lives, 500,000 stories, and 500,000 futures.

In this context, women represent more than two-thirds of the illiterate people in the world, who total 750 million and lack basic literacy and numeracy skills, and the number of women in research is equivalent to less than 30% of the total number of workers in this field in the world.

UNESCO believes that all forms of discrimination based on gender are among the violations of human rights, and represent a major obstacle to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen sustainable development goals.

UNESCO stated that its clear message in this regard is that women and men should be equal in terms of opportunities, options, capabilities, energies and knowledge presented to them as equal citizens, saying: “Providing girls, boys, women and men with knowledge, values, skills and attitudes conducive to overcoming gender disparities is a condition A precedent for building a sustainable future for all. "

Earlier, the United Nations Population Fund reported that the expected cost to end the most common harmful practices against girls, which is female genital mutilation, known as female circumcision and underage marriage, amounts to $ 3.4 billion annually to end the suffering of an estimated 84 million girls. The average, during the period from 2020 to 2030.