No Time To Lose

This UNICEF Video outlines both the present state of female genital mutilation/cutting, child, early and forced marriage, and effective responses. Some key points made include:

• FGM is a human rights violation.
• 130 million girsl and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM. 
• In 4 countries - Somalia, Guina, Djibouti, Egypt - over 90% of the female population has been cut.
• Dramatic reductions have been accompilshed in many countries including Liberia, Kenya, Nigeria and Central African Republic.
• But 30 million more girls alive today may be cut in the next decade.
• 66% of women and men living in 29 countries with the significant practice of FGM think cutting should stop.
• Public dialogue is crucial for community wide change.
• More than 700 million women alive today were married as children.
• 1 in 3 were marrined when they were under 15 years of age.
• In Malawi (as example) 62% of wom with no formal education were child brides. 
• Child brides have more children and less health care.
• In Niger only 11% of women married before 15years delivered their first child in a health facility - compared to 43% of those married at 18years or older.
• Practice of child marriage is declining - slowly.