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Fight against early marriages and forced marriages

Ms. Diaryatou Bah, Guinean, feminist, activist, founder of the association “Hopes and struggles of women”.

© Diaryatou Bah

By: Sayouba Traore

1 min

Le Coq chante has decided to celebrate March 8, 2022 in its own way.

A first clarification: March 8 is not Women's Day, but International Women's Rights Day.

We are therefore going to talk about polygamy, excision, early marriages, forced marriages, and all those social practices that prevent the real development of women in many countries.

(Replay)

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There is a long way to go for the development of women in the world.

And this concerns all societies, all cultural backgrounds, all continents and all countries.

Each to varying degrees.

And the main difficulty is that we have made simple public health problems taboo questions.

Talking about it is therefore tantamount to criticizing or even offending a culture or a religion.

One day or another, human societies will have to find a way to overcome these difficulties, which are totally artificial.

Because you should know that every year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18 in the world, that is to say 1 girl out of 5, according to the NGO Plan international.

In West and Central Africa, more than 4 out of 10 young women are married before their eighteenth birthday.

(Rebroadcast March 7, 2021)

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- Mrs. Diaryatou Bah, Guinean, feminist, associative activist, founder of the association “Hopes and struggles of women”.

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