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Child marriage is much from being only a Kenyan subject – women in sub-Saharan Africa are on the highest threat of child marriage in the world, with one in three marrying earlier than the age of 18, in keeping with the UN kids’s company Unicef.
As a part of the UN’s sustainable growth targets, 2030 was set because the deadline to fully finish child marriage, nevertheless Unicef says progress will must be “considerably accelerated” to satisfy this goal.
The prevalence is reducing globally – at the moment, one in 5 ladies aged 20 to 24 years had been married as kids versus practically one in 4 10 years in the past.
The quickest progress has been made in South Asia, the place a lady’s threat of marrying in childhood has dropped by greater than a 3rd.
However a latest Unicef report acknowledged that West and Central Africa, the area with the very best prevalence of child marriage, had made little progress over the past 25 years. On the present tempo, it will take the area extra 200 years to remove the observe.
Toby Schmutzler, one of many administrators of Nawi, says everybody who labored on the movie was passionate concerning the mission, however the problem now’s to get the movie seen.
“The message might be tremendous stunning but when no-one sees the movie then no-one hears the message,” he says.
The movie was screened on the UN headquarters in New York final month – and Kenya chosen it for its Oscars submission, although it didn’t make it to final week’s shortlist.
Nonetheless the directing group is heartened to be in talks for a world launch in the US, Canada, Europe, Central Africa and Australia.
The movie was launched in Kenya late final 12 months, and in Nairobi had one of many longest cinema runs ever of a regionally produced film.
