{"id":625,"date":"2014-09-02T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:35:15","slug":"child-marriage-for-syria-refugees-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/child-marriage-for-syria-refugees-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Child marriage for Syria refugees on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC speaks to child brides who say their wedding day &#8220;was a sad day&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Child marriage is on the rise in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon housing the growing stream of refugees from Syria, recent UN reports revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A report from last year by the UN Children&#8217;s Rights and Emergency Relief Organization showed that a quarter of marriages that take place in the refugee camps involve girls under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC recently spoke to some of these young brides in the Zaatari Camp, many of which are already mothers.<\/p>\n<p>One young girl who was carrying an infant called her wedding day &#8220;a sad day&#8221;. &#8220;I did not want to get married at this age,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Another girl, donning a black hijab, told the BBC that she was 14 when she had to marry a 50-year-old man from Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>She says that &#8220;Everyone was telling me to smile or laugh but my feeling was fear, from the moment we got engaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/middle-east\/41108-140822-child-marriage-for-syria-refugees-on-the-rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC speaks to child brides who say their wedding day &#8220;was a sad day&#8221; Child marriage is on the rise in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon housing the growing stream of refugees from Syria, recent UN reports revealed. A report from last year by the UN Children&#8217;s Rights and Emergency Relief Organization showed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,7,4,146,147],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-child-brides","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-syria","tag-young-brides"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}