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Former first lady Michelle Obama, human rights attorney Amal Cooney and philanthropist Melinda French Gates advocated for ways to end child marriage in an op-ed on Wednesday. In their Time ...
Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is an international non-governmental organization with the mission to end child marriage throughout the world. [1] The organization was created by The Elders to enable small groups from around the world to address the common issue of early marriage.
In response to the results of the survey, Tahirih launched its Forced Marriage Initiative and National Network to Prevent Forced Marriage. Tahirih began its campaign to end child marriage in the United States with the aim of changing state laws that make child marriage legal and fail to protect minors from "forced marriage, human trafficking ...
Amin, an activist, founded the Naila Amin Foundation to help victims of child marriage and has been pushing U.S. states to end it for years. In 2018, she helped New Jersey raise the minimum ...
Theme for the International Day of the Girl Child Year Theme 2012: Ending Child Marriage, [15] 2013: Innovating for Girls' Education, [16] 2014: Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence, [17] 2015: The Power of Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030 2016: Girls' Progress = Goals' Progress: What Counts for Girls 2017
Every three seconds, a girl under the age of 18 is married.
‘No child should be subjected to the lifelong harms that come with child marriage,’ charity says. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Girls who managed to escape child marriage. The targets and indicators for SDG 5 are extensive and provide equal opportunity for females (women and girls). [7] Targets cover a broad crosscutting gender issues including ending all forms of discrimination against all females everywhere (Target 5.1), violence and exploitation of females (Target 5.2), eliminate practices such as female genital ...