When being a bride is not a celebration

10-chief-with-carolOn my way to work, on a crowded peak hour train, I was distracted by the headlines in a newspaper someone was reading opposite me: ‘Every 7 seconds a girl younger than 15 gets married’! Is this really happening in the 21st century? Wow.

I feel frustrated with global systems that don’t bring perpetrators of child violence to justice. Continue reading “When being a bride is not a celebration”