Just a little back ground of what has been going on in India. India's development has been slowing down because of discriminatory practices against women, for example child marriage. South African peace campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu said that India is doing fantastic but think it would better if women were given their proper place. He is now a chairman of The Elders, which is a group of prominent people dedicated to addressing humanitarian issues, and they have started a new global movement called "Girls Not Brides" aimed at ending child marriage. The article says, "Gender experts say a girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds." This practice is most prevalent in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, despite laws in most countries banning it. Indian women face threats from sexual violence, dowry murders, discrimination in health, education and land rights as well as child marriages. This is a social problem because a particular group is being hurt and their is a group that is aware of this and are advocating to help them. I did not realize how many women under the age 18 were getting married, 47 percent of women in India were married before the age of 18. I am surprised that the United States has not gotten involved in this social problem because of the United States being so ethnocentric.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/us-india-women-tutu-idUSTRE8181AD20120209
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