Young voices demand to be heard: Celebrating young activists on Human Rights Day

UNITED NATIONS, Geneva– Memory Banda, 23, knows how to change the world: by refusing to stay silent. Ms. Banda grew up in Malawi in an area wherechild marriage,sexual violence andearly pregnancy were common. “In my childhood, I had seen a lot of girls dropping out of school, getting pregnant, forced into marriages and sexually violated,” she recalled recently in an interview with UNFPA. 
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