{"id":23357,"date":"2020-10-02T01:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/oct\/01\/covid-crisis-could-force-extra-25m-girls-into-child-marriage-charity"},"modified":"2020-10-02T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:20:23","slug":"covid-crisis-could-force-extra-2-5m-girls-into-child-marriage-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23357","title":{"rendered":"Covid crisis could force extra 2.5m girls into child marriage \u2013 charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Save the Children predicts worst rise in child marriage rates in 25 years as a result of pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Up to 2.5 million more girls around the world are at risk of being forced into child marriage over the next five years as a result of the impact of Covid-19, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/?cid=pse-gp_A17038001-go_001-8B98797FQ&amp;ppc=true&amp;matchtype=e&amp;s_keyword=save%20the%20children&amp;adposition=&amp;&amp;ppc=true&amp;matchtype=e&amp;s_keyword=save%20the%20children&amp;adposition=&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw_NX7BRA1EiwA2dpg0jidVmVG9Lmfq3swQO8RtG_zNtL2qOb0hAz-TtZqbXaasHPtDC2JNxoCIMEQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">Save the Children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The charity predicts the worst surge in rates of child marriage in 25 years, as the pandemic has shuttered schools and pushed poor families further into destitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/oct\/01\/covid-crisis-could-force-extra-25m-girls-into-child-marriage-charity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save the Children predicts worst rise in child marriage rates in 25 years as a result of pandemicUp to 2.5 million more girls around the world are at risk of being forced into child marriage over the next five years as a result of the impact of Covid-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[1671,1069,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-marriage","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-society","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\/23357","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23358,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}