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Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe Research Paper

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“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” This human right is important because everyone in Africa deservers to control their own life. Many young girl are forced to marry at a young age. Girl are married at a young age because they are uneducated. It is important to fix this problem quickly because children brides are two time more likely to be beaten by their husband. Also a mother that is at the age lower than 18 their infant is 60% higher risk of dying then of a mother that is 19. The last thing is childbirth is the leading cause of death in young women. (age 15-19)
Right now in Niger they have the highest rate of child marriage. All people in Africa has the right to their life and what to do with it. Every person has their future in their hand all the have to do is grasp it and never let go. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has made a dent in South Sudan and Uganda. She has impacted this two country so much. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe was only armed with a sewing machine fought back against …show more content…

This organization has studied what child marriage has been done in Niger to stop, and also the things that didn’t work. Things that didn’t work were trying to raise the legal age to marry to age 18, however this didn’t work because the family continue to force their daughters to marry young. Sometime at the age of 8 of 9. They have also tried using art, media, and pop culture to inspire people and to get people’s attention. The last thing that they tried was trying to educate girls about health. They have learned that the number one thing that leads to children marriage is children that the girls are not educated. They first solution is to raise the tax in Niger. The extra tax will go straight to funding the schools that Niger already has. With this extra cash the schools can buy new supplies or even hire more teacher to teach the

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