{"id":208263,"date":"2025-09-26T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ending-child-marriage-needs-a-culture-of-accountability-respect-for-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:43:59","slug":"sierra-leone-ending-child-marriage-needs-a-culture-of-accountability-respect-for-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ending-child-marriage-needs-a-culture-of-accountability-respect-for-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Ending Child Marriage Needs a Culture of Accountability, Respect for the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">United Nations \u2014 <em>On the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) under the theme &#8216;Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,&#8217; Just Rights for Children launched its campaign for a &#8216;Child Marriage-Free World by 2030.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Global leaders came together at the sidelines of this year&#8217;s UN General Assembly to commit to ending child marriage, calling on all world leaders to make concerted efforts to ensure accountability and enforce the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations \u2014 On the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) under the theme &#8216;Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,&#8217; Just Rights for Children launched its campaign for a &#8216;Child Marriage-Free World by 2030.&#8217; Global leaders came together at the sidelines of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[13948,258,256,8438,7915,7077,6572,9795,257,7571,7858,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-208263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-culture","tag-law","tag-leone","tag-marriage","tag-news","tag-respect","tag-rule","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}