First children's wedding in Norway
Thea is only 12 years old and the first child bride in Norway. A girl walks down the aisle on Saturday, October 11 to meet her 37-year-old husband. Being the first official children's wedding in Norway, the event caused a storm of public outrage. Protests are raging, and Thea's blog is getting a lot of attention.
This is a project! A project designed to draw public attention to children's weddings taking place every day in the world. 39,000 girls are deprived of their childhood every day.
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1. “Hey! My name is Thea and I am 12 years old. I'm getting married this month."
2. Thea's wedding blog became the most read blog in Norway in just one day. She instantly provoked a reaction when people immediately turned to the police and demanded to stop the upcoming wedding.
3. It contains Thea's thoughts about the upcoming marriage and what can await a child in this monstrous situation. Thousands of people discussed the topic of early marriage on social media. But this was precisely the goal of the project: to involve the population in mass protests, force them to take immediate action and stop Thea's wedding before the scheduled date - October 11, this is the International Day of the Girl.
4. “We believe that provocation is a powerful tool for demonstrating a reality that is actually very provocative. We hope that people will mobilize and speak out against child marriage, as 39,000 girls are being broken every day. Perhaps Thea's blog, as a call to public attention, will help poor children who are sold to grown men."
5. In conclusion, I want to remind you again: the blog is a fake, but a vivid reminder to the public - children get married! Here are links, on these pages you will find monstrous stories of girls who were given in marriage at 12-14 years old; mortality rates for early births ...
6. A couple of photos of real underage wives, you can find their stories at the links at the end of the post.
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9. As the situation evolves, over the next decade, 142 million girls will be married before they turn 18.