
Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed in marriages before they turned 15, 39,000 girls are forced to marry every day, some as young as eight years old. (Leggi un articolo sullo stesso argomento in Italiano)