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Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • 12 years ago • 1 comments

Child marriage a huge concern on Human Rights Day

450 girls under ten were reportedly forced to marry adult men in a mass Muslim marriage that was held by Hamas in Gaza in 2012.

December 10 marks the anniversary of the presentation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes that there are equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. But, because of the widespread practice of child marriage, 14 million girls under 18 are denied those rights each year.

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seeder Krishna 12 years ago

Its not just a problem in the Middle-east and Africa-- this horrific problem (essentially it is legalized rape-- of minors ) exists in places such as Britain as well: Britain's Underage Muslim Marriage Epidemic

"Forced marriage is probably the last form of slavery in the UK." Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Northwest England.

More than a dozen Muslim clerics at some of the biggest mosques in Britain have been caught on camera agreeing to marry off girls as young as 14.

Undercover reporters filming a documentary about the prevalence of forced and underage marriage in Britain for the television program ITV Exposuresecretly recorded 18 Muslim imams agreeing to perform an Islamic marriage, known as a nikah , between a 14-year-old girl and an older man.

Campaigners against forced marriage -- which is not yet a crime in Britain -- say thousands of underage girls -- including some under the age of five -- are being forced to marry against their will in Muslim nikahs every year, and that the examples exposed by the documentary represent just "the tip of the iceberg."

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