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PREVENTING AND RESONDING TO CHILD MARRIAGE AND EARLY UNION

May 04, 2023

Violence against women and girls has been increasing day by day in Siraha district as well as in Nepal. Mainly, sexual, physical, emotional abuse by an intimate partner; physical or sexual abuse by family members or others; sexual harassment and abuse by teachers, police officers or employers; trafficking for forced labor and such traditional practices as forced for child marriages, dowry-related violence are highly prevalent. In context of Siraha district, the patriarchal, superstitions and illiteracy among women, as well as poverty and marginalization of women are the factors accelerating the cases of violence against women and girls at large. At the same time, impunity in the state and weak enforcement of laws.

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