Whats Your Stand? Sign The Petition Today, Stop Underage Marriage!

The Nigerian senate just passed a law allowing the marriage of young girls, some as young as 10, as long as they are “physically developed” and their parents and potential suitors are fine with it.
Several are outraged and disgusted that underage marriage is now approved by the Nigerian Constitution, and a petition was created to urge the United Nations to stop this.
The petition reads: The Nigerian Senate just approved language that would remove the protection for young women and girls from repeatedly being rape in the guise of early marriage.

New York-based Guttmacher Institute’s study reports that the Nigerian authorities have been failing to implement sexual health education for decades and now, the Nigerian Senate has made it part of the Nigerian Constitution to give adult men the right to take any young girl as a wife, even as young as ten years old.
Here is the senate’s new rule: “”The Nigerian Senate also resolved to alter Section 29 (a) of the constitution that stipulates that a woman shall not be qualified for marriage until she attains the 18 years as they deleted age specification for women being married from the draft constitution and left the marriage age for women open. The Senate claimed that a woman is deemed to be “full of age” once she is married irrespective of the age she did so.”
We need your help to get ACTION from the United Nations to stop the government of Nigeria from this grave injustice!

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