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hello i'm christine wonderwall come to africa to have you along if you're a girl born in nigeria there's a good chance you'll be married before you're 18 years old that's because nigeria as one of the highest number of child marriages in the world that's according to the un we're talking about this as the world marks 38 the 30th anniversary of the convention of the rights of the child as we report the rights of many girls in nigeria are being violated. a muslim neighborhood in could do in a city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years with not much light or food and left on her own her name is. she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her

husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4 a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before you stay. this neighbor knows for santa he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters of much younger. sons and. 6. by the marriage as much rort. this is. a fierce advocate for women's and children's rights she helped her son and to be freed robbie is muslim herself she says the koran does not justify this practice there is no pacific or any findings or any story that prove those things the administration really be forced marriages are most of this is not done based on

islamic perspective the add on base or cultural perspective she says education is key to change outdated practices and support women's rights. then why does a leader that is not all that. is something that has to do with advancement so are the laws can be amended and can be seeing. that the condition of the. child marriage exists elsewhere in nigeria to here in lagos poverty drives some parents to marry the daughters of under 18. is privileged in many ways but that doesn't stop the 17 year old from raising her voice against child marriage his son a story makes are angry a lot of nigerians don't view women as human beings view them as. a pet added additive to them susan wants to amend the constitution so that it bars anyone

under the age of 18 from getting married she and 2 friends have started an online petition to bring the issue to the senate floor the next step would be to get to the root of the problem and try to educate the man the women and everyone perpetrating this. there are millions of girls who are married off every year and if those millions of girls were millions of people adults nigeria's workforce. the g.d.p. and he called to me would be in a much better standing than it is now. a son has been transferred to this psychiatric hospital the doctors say it will take months to stabilize her it's unclear paloma the government will finance her treatment into the her family will be held accountable for the damage it has done. i spoke to 13 year old campaign a manual or a gun definitely a from ghana she has been researching child marriage in her community i began by

asking her what she found out. i'd love to know down to brandon and that 18 years old guy you've been to marriage because you're right or yeah right now financially the outcry masha bradley and rich did can take care of their got you know and get given the girl to marry are. ok so that is why child marriage is happening oh do you want to say some more yes any admission that if. it's got cut out of time people will get it's when did go. bad thing yes she will be giving to marriage and you have been doing to now so i got into my least that's what that yeah yeah jack. you. asked why did you even out you are too green and

ily h ok ok man you made us so so that is what your research is telling you and so what do you think needs to be done such child marriage can be brought to an end in communities like yours. thank you for that christine. out believe that governments aren't going through to educate. and there ain't any to help there ain't trying nationally so that is not given out of. dog hairs through my reach at barrick and i. ok manual i sense that this is something that you are very passionate about tell me why this is something that you are doing while you're fighting for child marriage to end. thank you i'm fine for child marriage who ended because you couldn't do so how

did the children who are given out to marriage act and very in that age that awful. teenage pregnancies and you are going to delude by big guy did call the good does not want to will lead them to become competent guy to give him a big fat while give you better and give a man when i restated in 95 doubt they'd die many of them die owl's not happy at will again that's why i i want to i want to. get there right thing people who are given object to grant my rage at it to stop it because god knows why these bills come to come from and who are in the near future that was emmanuel at the end the fatigue from ghana now

the health system in zimbabwe is on the verge of collapse as the country battles its worst economic crisis in decades stocks this have been on strike for months now nurses and midwives in the capital harare have also stopped work the result is that many pregnant women are being forced to give birth in dangerous conditions. far from the maternity ward men are queuing up to give birth in the living room of a cramped apartment here harare the woman looking after them is 72 year old grandmother esther. she has no formal midwife training but since a local clinic closed 2 weeks ago she says she has been delivering up to 20 babies a day. and here we are i don't have anything to use or a proper place but the holy spirit helps me over these here pregnant women what's

on the already given birth and have gone to their homes because i don't have the space to accommodate them or anything to get them. here is percy variances cofee newborn baby the birth did not go us she planned when contractions became painful she rushed to the nearby clinic just to find closed doors that was what it was. i don't know it. was. when you. see. these you. know in a room a phone. that's more days to them it was funny then a good phrase to move people. over the weekend seeing your health officials came to visit is to slat. you just read it. or i didn't realize that this is your sickness like it specifically if you do. the numbers that we just

look at the numbers that. we would be in britain and remember what it is. going home with her baby press t.v. iran's is grateful she says they could both have died had not been for instance help for now the strike goes on and the doors of the hospital remain closed. my next guest is a nurse and midwife. from the zimbabwe urban and rural council nurses workers union she's in the capital harare welcome to date any news africa we've just seen that women in some bob way are turning to backstreet. midwives to deliver their babies what are the risks involved. they are many risks involved in big certainly 2 or 3 because. women in labor and delivery they need should to morning which needs professional people to do that

they have complications which me ok like. the modern age. cited liberal prolonged labor they are quite a number of complications because this people would not have adequate. knowledge of how to conduct that anybody's mind it's question to you is you all of course one of those professions as you say who are striking and i wondered what would it take for people like you to go back to work. for you and of course the media has been saying this is. striking but the fact is that to be are not striking this isn't went on strike this is that incapacity to able to go to work due to fire because we seem to psychological if i mention all india social lives so the cup us addicted to continue going to wake. can you elaborate on that point does this come down to

a wage dispute that you're having with the government. we wait for the aristide to consul not the government and our employers to consol. so we have been appealing to them so that they they actually see how incapacitated we are we send them a later in may 21000 writing our incapacitation we send a letter as well in july then in november and up to now nothing is being done by the city 5 s. so we are just appearing to them to yes we know that 12 essential services today community and our patients that really need as and it's quite said is quite the dining but our women are suffering because we cannot afford to go to work ok that's

. thank you. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we're interested to know what you think about the stories we cover here on news africa and the stories you think we should be covering there on social media and on twitter as one to say the next time i have a. great use of to the overthrow of the gadhafi regime libya has descended into almost continuous conflict between its rival senses a problem my guest this week here in tire is that is our much much weaker deputy prime minister of the us our government of national accord closely allied to groups of armed militias which should be encouraged to pursue its human rights abuses conflict zone. 60 minutes on.

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