It seems in India, the plight of girls will not get over that easily as the latest UN reports have revealed some shocking facts. The reports have narrated the ordeal of girls in our country and has revealed that in case of child marriage, India stands at number two on the world stage. The reports have also brought to fore that 42% of girls in India are sexually abused before 19. When will such evils be eradicated from the society and when will India be freed from such problem. India has second-highest number of child marriages As per the UN report. The highest rate of child marriage is in Bangladesh (where two out of every three girls marry before age 18), followed by India, Nepal and Afghanistan.

Almost half of all girls in South Asia marry before the age of 18. One in five girls are married before the age of 15. These are the highest rates in the world. “These figures confirm that child marriage is rooted in gender norms and in expectations about the value and roles of girls,” the report added. In India, 43 percent of women aged 20-24 were first married by the age of 18 between 2005- 2013. Girls with no education are 5.5 times more likely to marry or enter into union as those with at least 10 years of education.

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