Tag: Child

A MESSAGE TO MEN AND BOYS FROM ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU Posted on Tuesday 20th Sep 2011 A few months ago, in Northern Ethiopia, I met a group of young women who had been married around the age of 10 or 12. Many of them had their first children at 13 or 14. It was shocking…

DESMOND TUTU: CHILD MARRIAGE HARMS OUR HUMAN FAMILY September 19, 2014 Millions of girls are married as children. This fact harms our human family and reminds us how deeply biased our world still is against mothers, sisters and daughters. We now have a moral duty to end one of humankind’s most destructive traditions. Experts say…