{"id":29790,"date":"2021-03-16T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/pandemic-forcing-girls-in-south-east-asia-and-pacific-out-of-school-and-into-marriage-study"},"modified":"2021-03-16T05:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:30:04","slug":"pandemic-forcing-girls-in-south-east-asia-and-pacific-out-of-school-and-into-marriage-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29790","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic forcing girls in south-east Asia and Pacific out of school and into marriage \u2013\u00a0study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female children are seen as an economic burden, and tough times are setting back progress by a generation, gender equality charity says<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of adolescent girls across south-east Asia and the Pacific are being forced to leave school and get married instead as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned, saying \u201ca generation of girls could be lost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plan.org.au\/publications\/smart-successful-strong\/\">report<\/a> by Plan International Australia highlighted the importance of secondary education for girls, and detailed the increased risk and long-term impacts of child, early and forced marriage in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/pandemic-forcing-girls-in-south-east-asia-and-pacific-out-of-school-and-into-marriage-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female children are seen as an economic burden, and tough times are setting back progress by a generation, gender equality charity saysThousands of adolescent girls across south-east Asia and the Pacific are being forced to leave school and get married&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[41,1671,1066,615,874,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-child-marriage","category-coronavirus","category-education","category-pacific-islands","category-society","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\/29790","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29791,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions\/29791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}