Child rights: ‘Discourage child marriages’

LAHORE:

Government and parents should give priority to girls’ education, MPA Sadia Sohail Rana said on Sunday.

They should discourage child marriages, she said at a discussion organised by Kafka Welfare Organisation in collaboration with Alif Ailaan.

She said that she would try her best to get a bill against child marriages passed in the Punjab Assembly.

The participants of the discussion were informed that 37 per cent of Pakistani women were married before the age of 18.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2015.