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7 hours agoAbout 80 annual marriages of people under 16 years of age in Kosovo
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(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 [...]
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 that within the year, about 80 premature marriages occur in Kosovo, meaning the marriages of people under the age of 16.
