crises defining adolescent girls
photo credit:asiapacific.unwomen.org CRISES DEFINING ADOLESCENT GIRLS The sites of insecurity for adolescent girls, as well the ways in which they respond and continue to strive towards building safer communities for themselves and those around them. Adolescent girls experience crisis differently than their male peers and adult women. During a crisis, they are particularly vulnerable to violence and exploitation policy makers and the humanitarian community view adolescent girls as powerless and rarely consult them about decision that impact their lives for example, 60% of the 13.2 million out of school children in Nigeria are girls. The 2020 UN Development program said in its development report that, 43% of women ages 20 to 24 had been married by the age of 18 in Nigeria. Child marriage has deep and lasting impacts on them from making their own life choices, disrupts their education, subjects them to violence