{"id":13,"date":"2013-04-02T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T10:41:15","slug":"nearly-half-of-teenage-girls-in-forced-marriages-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/nearly-half-of-teenage-girls-in-forced-marriages-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of Teenage Girls in Forced Marriages in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 years old are married. Some were as young as 12 years old when they were forced to marry men who, in many cases, were far older than them.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2013\/03\/07\/old-man-can-feed-us-you-will-marry-him\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Man Can Feed Us So You Will Marry Him<\/a>, a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2013\/03\/07\/old-man-can-feed-us-you-will-marry-him\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>, documents these facts and describes the terrible consequences of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/5-chilling-facts-about-child-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">forced marriage for so many girls<\/a>\u00a0in South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/nearly-half-of-teenage-girls-in-forced-marriages-in-south-sudan.html#ixzz2PJb197vB\">http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/nearly-half-of-teenage-girls-in-forced-marriages-in-south-sudan.html#ixzz2PJb197vB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 years old are married. Some were as young as 12 years old when they were forced to marry men who, in many cases, were far older than them.\u00a0The Old Man Can Feed Us So You Will Marry Him, a new\u00a0report\u00a0from\u00a0Human Rights Watch, documents these facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,3,8,10,12,11,9],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-forced-marriage","tag-haloproject","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-marry","tag-sudan","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}