CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA: A STUDY ON THE FACTORS THAT LEAD TO CHILD MARRIAGE AND THE IMPACTS TOWARD THE VIOLATION OF ‘CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD’

Najihatul Umaira, Syahrulizan (2022) CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA: A STUDY ON THE FACTORS THAT LEAD TO CHILD MARRIAGE AND THE IMPACTS TOWARD THE VIOLATION OF ‘CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD’. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Child marriage has been the most concerning global issue and viewed as a practice that violated the human rights, specifically the rights of the child. This social issue has existed as a social evil within the community for centuries. This traditional practice has been deeply-rooted in India and fueled by gender inequality, poverty, social norms, culture and insecurity. The condition of this practice have become worse when the world was struck Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, causing all the efforts that were put into action to end child marriage collapsed and destroyed within the split-seconds. Even before Covid-19 pandemic occurs, most experts estimated that the continuation of child marriage will take place for many more decades and the declaration of the pandemic has cause the number of this practice vastly increase. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that lead to child marriage and also the impacts of this practice towards the violation of ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’. Other than exploring the plain-sight factors such as poverty and gender inequality in India, Covid-19 pandemic emerge as one of the main factor that lead to child marriage. A sense of social insecurity is also one of the factors that lead to child marriage as children in India tend to expose with violence, assaults and human trafficking. It will also discuss children's rights to education, their rights to receive protection from physical and mental violence as well as the rights to leisure and engage in activities appropriate to their age.

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