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The state authorities AssamMore than 1,800 people allegedly involved in child marriage cases were arrested this Friday in northeast India as part of a police operation to stop the illegal practice so widespread in the region.
“Currently, arrests are being made throughout the state against those who violate the provisions of the law. Child Marriage Prohibition Act. Over 1,800 people have been arrested so far,” Assam Prime Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Twitter.
The operation began this Friday, a day after Sarma announced that the police had recently registered 4,004 cases. wedding children’s throughout the state and meet with senior law enforcement officials to coordinate its release.
According to the National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS5), nearly a third of women aged 20-24 in Assam were married before reaching adulthood, mostly in rural areas.
A share that exceeds only four other Indian states, and which is far from the national average, 23.3% of the population. marriages underage women.
MORTALITY RATES
The Assam government set out to end this long-standing dynamic last January when it decided to tighten laws preventing men from marrying underage girls in a bid to bring down the high rate Child mortality and from maternal mortality.
According to the authorities, child marriage According to the latest 2018-2020 birth registration data, this is associated with the majority of the 36 infant deaths per 1,000 births and 195 maternal deaths per 10,000 births in the state.
Two numbers that far exceed the average for the rest of the country, which is 28 deaths. infantile and 97 deaths mothers respectively.
Despite the efforts of the authorities India to reduce child marriage in recent years, with the proportion of girls marrying before the age of 18 falling from 47% between 2005 and 2006 to 23.3% between 2019 and 2021, this progress is not enough, according to United Nations Foundation for children (UNICEF).
Agency UN A report released in 2019 highlights that there are 223 million married girls in India, one-third child marriage in the world. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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