A factsheet released earlier this year entitled ‘The World’s Women and Girls’, produced by the Washington-basedPopulation Reference Bureau, showed that a whopping 47 percent of women in India are married off by the time they are 18 years-old. Not only is India’s average higher than the one for South Central Asia (45 percent), but the country also fares worse than several African nations, including Ghana, Sudan and Nigeria. In contrast, Pakistan’s figure was 24 percent, while even war-ravagedAfghanistan (43 percent) apparently did a better job of curbing youth marriage than the world’s largest democracy. Continue reading India’s Young Women Shame Wednesday, May 18, 2011
India’s Young Women Shame
A factsheet released earlier this year entitled ‘The World’s Women and Girls’, produced by the Washington-basedPopulation Reference Bureau, showed that a whopping 47 percent of women in India are married off by the time they are 18 years-old. Not only is India’s average higher than the one for South Central Asia (45 percent), but the country also fares worse than several African nations, including Ghana, Sudan and Nigeria. In contrast, Pakistan’s figure was 24 percent, while even war-ravagedAfghanistan (43 percent) apparently did a better job of curbing youth marriage than the world’s largest democracy. Continue reading India’s Young Women Shame 
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