MALAWI BANS CHILD MARRIAGE, LIFTS MINIMUM AGE TO 18

Originally published on EYEWITNESS NEWS LONDON on February 17, 2015. Girls are currently allowed to marry at 16 or 15 with parental consent, but many marry much younger. Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end…

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