{"id":54863,"date":"2023-05-05T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/05\/child-marriage-in-decline-but-will-take-300-years-to-eliminate"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:30:14","slug":"child-marriage-in-decline-but-will-take-300-years-to-eliminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54863","title":{"rendered":"Child marriage in decline \u2013 but will take 300 years to eliminate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN children\u2019s agency welcomes drop in number of underage brides, but warns 12 million girls still getting married each year<\/p>\n<p>The number of child marriages is declining worldwide, but at too slow a pace for any hope of eliminating the practice this century, Unicef, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/press-releases\/global-polycrisis-creating-uphill-battle-end-child-marriage-unicef\">the UN children\u2019s agency, has said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, Unicef tentatively welcomed the reduction but warned that it was nowhere close to meeting its sustainable development goal of ridding the world of the practice by 2030.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/05\/child-marriage-in-decline-but-will-take-300-years-to-eliminate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN children\u2019s agency welcomes drop in number of underage brides, but warns 12 million girls still getting married each yearThe number of child marriages is declining worldwide, but at too slow a pace for any hope of eliminating the practice this centur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"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":[401,1671,77,59,76,79,61,84,281,617,42,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-child-marriage","category-family","category-global-development","category-marriage","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news","category-young-people"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54863","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54863\/revisions\/54864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}