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Religion is yet another large component as to why child marriage is a remaining custom in rural Ethiopia. Acceptance of child marriage is majorly seen in the Ethiopian Muslim community. Muslims who support child marriage claim that their religion and the Shariah allows girls to marry at a young age.
Addis Powerhouse is a young women-led feminist knowledge production platform based in Ethiopia, which was founded in 2020. [32] Furthermore, Ethiopian girls and women's struggles and problems are mostly associated with social acceptance, access to education and child or forced marriages.
They produced music videos and performed on Ethiopian radio in a weekly drama and talk show for young women, addressing issues such as forced marriage, isolation and teen pregnancies, broadcasting on Sheger FM in Addis Ababa to a population of some 20 million. Their first live performance was at the Ethiopian National Theatre in May 2013. [2]
The first girls' school was opened in 1931. In 1967/1968, only 29.7% of primary schools' students, 26.7% of junior secondary students, and 18.3% of senior secondary students were girls. Of these years, 30.4% of first grade were female students. In 1982/1983, 64.5% of all students were male whereas 35.5% constitute female students.
She was related to the landlord's wife which made her feel even more at ease. At the time of the murder in August 2023, Abekyelesh was at work and the girl's aunt, a 15 year old guardian, was informed by Heaven that she was going to the bathroom and did not return. [7] Suspicious, the aunt attempted to find Heaven but was unsuccessful.
For one high school student in New Jersey, a single computer science competition fueled a mission to get more teenage girls interested in artificial intelligence, or AI. Ishani Singh, now 17, was ...
Girls from Ethiopia's impoverished rural areas are exploited in commercial sex within the country. Addis Ababa’s central market is the site of numerous brothels, where some young girls are exploited in commercial sex. Ethiopian girls are exploited in commercial sex in neighbouring African countries, particularly Sudan.
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity.