Seodi White

thumb|Seodi White Seodi Venekai-Rudo White is a social development lawyer and women's rights activist. As of August 2021, she is a legal consultant practicing as a Global Transactional Lawyer based in Malawi. She provides legal process outsourcing (LPO) services including contract drafting, contract management, legal support for management projects, support for business sale agreements, licensing sale agreements, data protection, data extraction, document review, legal analysis, and due diligence. She also provides legal management services in projects. Quotes When I came back the next day, the “women” had indeed gathered waiting for me. However I noticed that the “women” were not women, as such. They were… kids. Teenage girls I was hoping to talk to women and not to kids or girls, as I don’t think they would understand much about inheritance My hero the law, save the girls,” I thought! Yet, I soon found out that this was a complex story I will remain sad because I know the cost of child marriage. It deprives girls of education and undermines their self-confidence and self-identity. It also makes them prone to physical and emotional abuse by their so called husbands Girl-child marriages need to be prohibited tough the Constitution because they are a violation of every conceivable human right including the right to life, health, education, human dignity and development What I know for sure child marriage is a guarantee for poverty among girls in my country and I want it to end. No ifs or buts ‘No ifs or buts’: Child marriage needs to be abolished in Malawi, once and for all,March 3, 2015,by Seodi White widow cleansing,” a traditional practice in which a widow is expected to have sexual relations, “in order to cleanse her There is a belief that if she does not sleep with someone, the spirit of her dead husband will come and visit upon her and her family will be cursed It’s a mindset issue,” says White. Even the widows, they’ve told me, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want a curse to come to my husband.’ They cry to be cleansed Some have actually come out in the open and said: ‘I used to be a commercial cleanser, I’m HIV positive, I’ve stopped, it’s not fine and I go village by village telling other commercial cleansers to stop this, it’s a risky taboo behavior I decided I’m going to dedicate my life to dealing with injustice, just because I don’t like it when a structure or system puts others in poverty, puts others in a position of inequality In this country, to get ahead in life, to beat poverty, you need education Lawyer fights ‘widow sex’ tradition in Malawi,March 21, 2013,by Robyn Curnow and Jenni Watts, CNN External links Category:Lawyers from Malawi Category:Women's rights activists Category:Women in law Category:Women activists from Malawi Category:Living people