Despite the legislative focus on child marriage, implementation has been inadequate in addressing the core reasons and has failed to make a significant impact on its abolition
The COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa, the country worst hit by the virus on the continent, is raising worries about worsening child malnutrition. The malnutrition of children has long been a problem in South Africa, but measures to control the pandemic have cut off some of the vulnerable from government meals programs
Seventy-eight percent of respondents toasurvey sponsored by the Center for Global Development,(CGD), a Washington-based research group,also expressed concerns about school closures increasing gender-based violence.