{"id":785,"date":"2015-02-06T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:50:10","slug":"kidnapped-at-13-nepals-dalit-child-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/kidnapped-at-13-nepals-dalit-child-brides\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped at 13: Nepal’s Dalit child brides"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband’s house and didn’t stop running until she reached her parents’ doorstep in Nepal’s remote northwest.<\/p>\n

Her escape from a forced marriage — a tradition many teenage girls from the Himalayan nation’s Dalit community are expected to uphold — was soon under threat. But Susmita’s parents resisted demands from her in-laws to send her back, deciding to stand by their pleading daughter who desperately wanted a better life.<\/p>\n

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“I told them I never wanted to get married and I wasn’t going back. I ran away because I wanted to stay in school,” Susmita, now 16, told AFP.\u00a0Although Nepal banned child marriage in 1963, four out of ten girls are married before they turn 18, according to UNICEF.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/afp\/article-2938991\/Kidnapped-13-Nepals-Dalit-child-brides.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband’s house and didn’t stop running until she reached her parents’ doorstep in Nepal’s remote northwest. Her escape from a forced marriage — a tradition many teenage girls from the Himalayan nation’s Dalit community are expected to uphold — was soon […]<\/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":[97,7,4,215],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-child-marriage","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-nepal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}