Child marriages in Burkina Faso amongst world's highest, report finds

A report by Amnesty International has indicated that Burkina Faso has one of the world's highest rates of forced and early marriages.

According to the report entitled "Constraints and Private Rights: Forced marriages and barriers to contraception in Burkina Faso", more than half of girls in some areas of the country were married before the age of 17, contradicting the law which sets the marriage age at 18.

The report further noted that "far too many women and girls in Burkina Faso have no cont…
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