{"id":6445,"date":"2011-12-11T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2011-12-11T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:31:09","slug":"a-local-ngo-says-government-is-contributing-to-increased-domestic-violence-because-of-its-reluctance-to-put-in-place-laws-that-criminalize-early-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/11\/a-local-ngo-says-government-is-contributing-to-increased-domestic-violence-because-of-its-reluctance-to-put-in-place-laws-that-criminalize-early-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"A local NGO says government is contributing to increased domestic violence because of its reluctance to put in place laws that criminalize early marriages."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LILONGWE: A local NGO says government is contributing to increased domestic violence because of its reluctance to put in place laws that criminalize early marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director for Meaningful Action on HIV Support Network Association Mr. James Mussa said this to Zodiak Online in Lilongwe as the world observes 16 days of activism.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was insensitive of government to criminalise under age on motor vehicle driving and on voting while staying silent about early marriages.<\/p>\n<p>The organization has since embarked on training communities in rights activism, revamping rights clubs in schools and drilling local leaders in human rights protect.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mussa said his organization has stepped up the campaign against domestic violence as part of its contribution to fight vice.<\/p>\n<p>Events were held in Ngwenya in Lilongwe.\u2014Zodiak Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LILONGWE: A local NGO says government is contributing to increased domestic violence because of its reluctance to put in place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1397,258,347],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-early-marriages","tag-malawi","tag-ngo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}