{"id":51883,"date":"2024-11-16T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=51883"},"modified":"2024-11-16T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:50:00","slug":"national-strategy-to-end-child-marriage-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2024\/11\/16\/national-strategy-to-end-child-marriage-in-the-offing\/","title":{"rendered":"National strategy to end child marriage in the offing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is all set to bring a &#8216;national strategy to end child marriage, 2081&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategy is aimed at reducing and ending one of social ills- child marriage- prevalent in many districts in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Nawal Kishor Shah Sudi, informed that the formation of the national strategy had reached a final stage. The child marriage has taken toll especially on girls. It has resulted into unsustainable conjugal life, premature birth, gender and sexual violence, child labour, and human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategy would help reduce these social problems and ensure a dignified life to the girls. Lack of education, poverty and superstitions have caused early marriages in the rural areas. &#8220;The strategy will help end such bad practice,&#8221; Minister Sudi argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the inherent right of a person to have his\/her decision on marriage and reproduction. The law has the provision that marriage below 20 year is illegal in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The constitution, National Children Policy, 2080; Criminal Code, 2074; Children Act, 2075; Children Regulation, 2078; and others are in the implementation to curb child marriage and women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, Nepal has committed to various international instruments on children and women rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the total population in Nepal, the number of people below 18 year comprises 33.84 percent. (RSS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is all set to bring a &#8216;national strategy to end child marriage, 2081&#8217;. The strategy is aimed at reducing and ending one of social ills- child marriage- prevalent in many districts in the country. Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Nawal Kishor Shah Sudi, informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nawalkishor-shaha-mk.jpg?fit=1000%2C487&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-duP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51884,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883\/revisions\/51884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}