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Traditions can change: ending child marriage
Elders Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu, who travelled to Ethiopia in June 2011 to bring together experts and activists working to end child marriage around the world, say we can end this harmful practice in one generation.
Towards an end to child marriage
In June 2011 Elders Gro Brundtland, Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu travelled to Ethiopia to visit communities affected by child marriage and convene a meeting of experts and activists working to end child marriage around the world.
Women refuse to be victims of conflict; they are actors for change
Graça Machel and Mary Robinson state that though women are brutalised in conflict, they are not victims; they are actors for change.
Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority
Graça Machel argues that through their creation of a hierarchical relationship between men and women, traditional practices have contributed to the discrimination of women and girls.
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