Nigeria: Child Marriage Violates Girls’ Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A woman protests against underage marriage, Lagos, Nigeria. © 2017 / AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File (Abuja) – Child marriage remains prevalent in Nigeria because the federal and state governments have not adequately enforced laws to prevent it, Human Rights Watch said today. Nigeria’s rates of child marriage are some of the highest on the African continent. Although the federal Child Rights Act (CRA, 2003) prohibits marriage below age 18, the Nigerian constitution contains provisions which appear to conflict with this position. States with Islamic legal systems have…

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