4 minutes agoAbout 80 annual marriages of under 16 years of age in Kosovo
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(7 years ago)Nezmija is 24. She lives in Fushe Kosovo. By the age of 15, she was married and is now a mother of three. Nyhmija and her husband don't work either. All three children, two daughters and a son, along with their mother and father, seek donations in the street. During the day, they say they accumulate up [...]
Nezmija is 24. She lives in Fushe Kosovo. By the age of 15, she was married and is now a mother of three. Nyhmija and her husband don't work either.
All three children, two daughters and a son, along with their mother and father, seek donations in the street. During the day, they say they collect up to 15 euros from charities.
When I was 15, I got married. Now I'm 24-year-old and I have three kids. Now I live in Fushe Kosovo. Early in the morning I come to Pristina and ask for charity, I and my three children, 148x1>.
My parents married me when I was 15. We never had good financial conditions. I've had it, and I still have a hard life. I'm trying for my kids, but I have nothing to offer you. That's all I can do. I'm looking for charity with them and with the money we get, we're feeding”, so Najmija shows.
Reports of the international child organisation, “Save the Children”, show that if viewed from a global standpoint, every 7 seconds a girl under the age of 15.
The study points out that there are also 10-year-old girls who are forced to marry far older men in countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, India, and Somalia.
At the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, in the Gynecological Clinic, respectively, during the year 2018 alone, 65 babies from mothers under the age of 18. CKUK's data suggests that during 2018, 9,985 babies were born, out of which 65 of the non-mature mothers were born.
Meanwhile, during this year, in January September, 7,176 babies were born, with 26 children from non - adult mothers.
Luljeta Demolli, executive director at the Kosovar Centre for Gender Studies, says about REL that within the year, about 80 premature marriages occur in Kosovo, meaning marriages of persons under the age of 16.
The early “Marriages in Kosovo are prohibited by law, but there is an article in the Law on Marriage that, with the consent of parent or guardian, gives the right, a marriage under state supervision is allowed. But this has been misappreciated in Kosovo and is about 80 marriages that take place within the age of 16, where Kosovo enters countries where the law is not respected. Early marriages occur more in the Roma communities, the Ashkali and the Egyptian, but there is no exception to other communities”, Demolli says.
She adds that the consequences of early marriages are great until it underlines that most of these marriages are performed with the consent of family members of children who marry.
“The consequences are high by bringing high risk to health, birth of young children, drop out of schooling, and employment almost never happens to these women”, Demoll notes.
Consider the trend of early marriages of Roma communities -- the Ashkali and Egyptian -- the organisation “The Iesa Partnerip” has done a research at a settlement in Fushe Kosovo where these communities live. As a result of the research, it turns out that about 500 persons of the Roma communities -- the Ashkali and Egyptian of Fushe Kosovo -- 53.57% of them marry under the age of 18.
And 99% of them interrupt schooling after they get married. According to research by this organization, it's girls who get married under the age of 18, so 65% of respondents.
Most of them marry willingly, but there are also those forced into marriage by their parents.
Meanwhile, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, U n NICEF, a girl under 15 years, is five times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than a woman in her 20s. When a mother is under 18 years old, the prospect of her baby dying during the first year is 60 percent higher than if a baby is born from a mother over 19.
