The Deputy Minister for General Education and Instruction has condemned forced marriage of small girls and asked partners to work together to keep girls in school.
Rebecca Joshua Okwaci said little girls should not be forced into marriage which forces them out of school.She told government and development partners to work together to ensure that girls are allowed to develop their potentials at school to contribute to nation building before they marry.
Ms Joshua was addressing the commemoration of the twenty third anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in Juba on Tuesday.