Several international laws and agreements consider child marriage a violation of human rights and should be eliminated from both regional and international level.
First, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Article 16(2) of the UDHR states that ‘Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses’, and the persons involved must be at ‘full age’(Assembly, 1948).
Second, the United Nations declared Convention on Rights of the Child is an international treaty to protect the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. It defines “children” as any person below the age of 18, unless the laws of particular countries set the legal age for younger age. The UN General Assembly firstly adopted this Convention on 20th November in 1989, said in Article 19 (Protection from all forms of violence): ‘Children have the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated, physically or mentally. Governments should make sure that children are properly cared for and prevent them from …show more content…
For instance, this video mentioned that Muslims have the traditional believes like ‘girls should be virgins before their marriages’, ‘pregnancies prior to marriages are sins’, and ‘good Muslims should not have sex with anyone outside their marriages’. If any of those happens to a girl, the family and the community will feel ashamed, even the truth was that the girl was forced or raped by perpetrators, Therefore, for the Muslims, child marriage is considered to be the best way to prevent their girls from having sex behavior before marriage. Rather than an ingrained behavior and crimes, some groups believe child marriage is a good thing to do; even the international laws exist, this belief is difficult to
First, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Article 16(2) of the UDHR states that ‘Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses’, and the persons involved must be at ‘full age’(Assembly, 1948).
Second, the United Nations declared Convention on Rights of the Child is an international treaty to protect the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. It defines “children” as any person below the age of 18, unless the laws of particular countries set the legal age for younger age. The UN General Assembly firstly adopted this Convention on 20th November in 1989, said in Article 19 (Protection from all forms of violence): ‘Children have the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated, physically or mentally. Governments should make sure that children are properly cared for and prevent them from …show more content…
For instance, this video mentioned that Muslims have the traditional believes like ‘girls should be virgins before their marriages’, ‘pregnancies prior to marriages are sins’, and ‘good Muslims should not have sex with anyone outside their marriages’. If any of those happens to a girl, the family and the community will feel ashamed, even the truth was that the girl was forced or raped by perpetrators, Therefore, for the Muslims, child marriage is considered to be the best way to prevent their girls from having sex behavior before marriage. Rather than an ingrained behavior and crimes, some groups believe child marriage is a good thing to do; even the international laws exist, this belief is difficult to