Child+Marriage

UNICEF Child Marriage Lebanon Child marriage is when two separate social phenomena are practiced in some societies. Usually it involves a child marrying an older person either because of religion or because of economic necessities. Most of the occasions are a young girl marrying men. Child marriage has been present throughout human history. But now only in Arab or 3rd world countries have it and practice it. Families use child marriage to gain financial ties. UNICEF has been working on this topic many times. They try to find out a way to stop it. They have started clubs for children that help them protect the children from child marriage. The CRC always encourages children to use their rights. UN has done what it can to stop this issue and is still working on a way for the 49 countries to stop child marriage. It has been very difficult for the UN because this issue has to do with religion and culture not the usual which is the government. Lebanon strongly believes that child marriage should be allowed. Most of our people are from religions that child marriage is important to them. Also child marriage helps the family gain a title or safe them from poverty. Most cases in Lebanon are that a family needs an economic raise and they arrange a marriage with one of their children with and adult so their economic status will raise. Lebanese people strongly believe child marriage should be kept. Lebanon proposes some solutions like CMNG which stands for Child Marriage there is Nothing Wrong. This solution explains how child marriage is needed in countries and how there is nothing wrong because child marriage is usually arranged by parents and they know what they are doing and who’s hands they are putting their child’s life in. Also Lebanon proposes, CHILD MARRIAGE for those who needed. This solution focuses more on the fact that many poor families arrange child marriage to get out of such a low economic status. http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_earlymarriage.html http://www.unicef.org/media/media_45451.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage http://www.unicef.org/protection/files/Child_Marriage.pdf https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/le.html
 * 1) Lebanon is in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and it’s between Israel and Syria. Our formal name is Lebanon but we can also be called the Lebanese republic. Our climate ire mild cool, wet winters, hot dry summers and our mountains experience heavy winter snows. In a map we are found in the Middle East. Our geographic coordinates are 33 50 N, 35 50 E, we are .07 times the size of Connecticut approximately. We have narrow coastal plain and El Beqaa separates Lebanon and anti-Lebanon mountains. Lebanon is 10,400 sq km.
 * 1) Lebanon ’s government is republic and our president is Michel Sulayman since May 25, 2008. Political parties in our country are Democratic Gathering bloc, Progressive Socialist Party, Democratic Left, Democratic Renewal Movement, Future Movement Bloc, Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces, and Tripoli Independent Bloc. Our capital is Beirut. Hizballah military wing, Palestinian militias, Maronite Christians, Sunnis and their militias and Shi’as and their militias are international organization affiliations. Our military is composed by 934,828 males (ages between 16-49) and 948,327 females (ages between 16-49).
 * 1) Our official language is Arabic and other languages that are spoken throughout our country are French, English, and Armenian. Our ethnicity is 95 % Arab, 4% Armenian, and 1 % of other. Our major religions are Muslim 59.7 %, Christina 39 %, and 1.3 % other. Lebanon’s population is 3,971,941 and our growth rate is 1.154%. The distribution is 26% of 0-14 years, 66.8% of 15-64, and 7.1 % 65 and over. Our major cities are Tripoli, Baalbek, and Jounyeh. The infant mortality rate is 22.59 deaths/1,000 live births and our life expectancy at birth is 70.91 years for male and 75.04 years for females.
 * 1) GDP in Lebanon is $40.44 billion and per capita is $10,300. 30.10 % land is used for agriculture. Our natural resources are limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in water-deficit region, and arable land. In Lebanon our major agriculture products are citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco, sheep, and goats. Our major industries are banking, tourism, food processing, wine, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal fabricating. Our major exports are authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, and paper. Our major imports are petroleum products, cars, medical products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco, and electrical machinery. The currency is Lebanese pound and the exchange rates are Lebanese pounds per US dollar- 1,507.5 as of 2007.our total amount for exports are $4.077 billion and for imports is $11.93 billion.
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