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Mozambique: 130 girls a day forced into premature marriage, that’s five girls every hour
6:23 CAT | 31 May 2021
FILE - School in Nacala, July 4 2018. [File photo: AFP / Gianluigi Guercia]
Two years after the country passed a law against premature marriage, Mozambique continues to record a high number of cases.
Andrea Wojnar, Mozambique Resident Representative for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), reveals the dimensions of the problem in the country.
“Each day in Mozambique, 130 girls get married [prematurely], corresponding to five girls every hour,” she says. “As you can see, these figures are more than high and very worrying, especially in a context where we have a law in place to prevent this evil.”
Weak dissemination of the law, passed in 2019, is behind the prevalence of the phenomenon, according to Luísa Mafuiane, chairwoman of the Social Affairs, Gender, Technology and Communication commission in the Assembly of the Republic.
“We need to work together. We need planning,” the deputy says.
Mozambican government officials acknowledge the existence of the problem, considered at the meeting in Maputo, and concede that it is linked to poverty and to cultural practices harmful to the fulfilment and education of girls.
Source: RFI
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