{"id":22568,"date":"2020-09-07T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/07\/why-covid-school-closures-are-making-girls-marry-early"},"modified":"2020-09-07T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:15:46","slug":"why-covid-school-closures-are-making-girls-marry-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22568","title":{"rendered":"Why Covid school closures are making girls marry early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic\u2019s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade <\/p>\n<p>Samita (not her real name) is 17 and lives in the Lamjung district of Nepal. It was never easy, even before coronavirus, for her to attend school full-time. Living in a rural community in a family with little income she was expected to do housework as well.<\/p>\n<p>Samita persisted though. At the beginning of the year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsointernational.org\/our-work\/inclusive-education\/system-strengthening\/sisters-for-sisters\">Sisters for Sisters<\/a> project run by international development charity VSO was supporting her with an \u201colder sister\u201d mentor, who was encouraging her to keep up her education.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/07\/why-covid-school-closures-are-making-girls-marry-early\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic\u2019s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade Samita (not her real name) is 17 and lives in the Lamjung district of Nepal. It was never easy, even before coronavirus, for her to att&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1671,245,1069,59,1085,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-child-marriage","category-children","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-malawi","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}