Early marriage and poverty: why we must break the cycle. Every year, more than 13 million girls marry before their 18th birthday.
These girls overwhelmingly come from the world’s poorest countries, and are often the poorest girls within their communities. Early marriage is a complex problem, the root causes of which are many and varied. But poverty, and often extreme poverty, is an important piece of the jigsaw. It is both a cause and a consequence of early marriage. Arranging for their daughters to be married early can relieve immediate financial pressures for families living in extreme poverty. Most parents who marry their daughter before she reaches adulthood do so believing that they are acting in her best interest.
Many believe that having a husband is the best way to protect her from sexual violence, and that he will also provide for her material needs. This cycle is generational. Ending child marriage is an investment in the potential of many of the world’s poorest girls. Leadership on this issue must come from governments. World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World. This article was first published on September 30, 2013.
Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rules the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite uses a very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the planet. The goal is control. Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam.
Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. Previously, I have written about the Swiss study that Hudes mentioned. Pope Francis's book reveals a radical progressive in the making. In his own words, Pope Francis comes over as a clever, thoughtful and skilful mixture of social conservative and radical progressive who preaches zero tolerance of pederast priests but whose own behaviour during the terror of Argentina's military juntas remains decidedly blurred.
In his latest book, On Earth and Heaven, the man then known as Jorge Bergoglio, discusses the divine and the mundane with the prominent Jewish rabbi Abraham Skorka in a series of conversations published in 2010. Bergoglio appears as a man with a profound social conscience, expressing admiration of some atheist socialists and professing a genuine belief in interfaith dialogue – to the extent that some radical Catholics accuse him of heresy. He is critical of those who covered up the paedophile scandal that has done so much damage to the church he now leads.
"The idea that celibacy produces paedophiles can be forgotten," he says. "If a priest is a paedophile, he is so before he becomes a priest. BoP. TED. Global P.O.V Orgs.