Health consequences of forced marriage
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Every day, 39,000 girls under the age of 18 are married (WHO) © iStock / yamasan
By: Caroline Paré Follow
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According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), more than 140 million girls will be married between 2011 and 2020.
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Forced marriage is when a person marries against their will.
It is organized by families who do not respect or even care about their child's denial of consent.
Young girls who try to escape it are very often confronted with a family breakdown, with physical and psychological risks, and the traumas generated by early and unwanted sexual activity, early pregnancy, infections of the genital system. (AGI) and HIV.
How can we help these women and girls, some of whom live in Europe and are forced into marriage abroad?
What pathologies or physical and psychological disorders are diagnosed in the wake of these practices?
Who to consult?
Hadja Idrissa Bah
, student, president of the Children's Parliament and founding president of the club of young girls leaders of Guinea.
Member of the
Equipop board
and of the network of young feminists of French-speaking West Africa
Dr Ghada Hatem,
Obstetrician gynecologist Chief physician at the
Maison des femmes of the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis
, in the Paris region
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