Ending Child Early and Forced Marriage in Africa: a Human Rights PDF

of young women were married before age 18. In Western. Africa where the percentage is higher (over 40 per cent)

Child Marriage in West and Central Africa

The prevalence of child marriage below the age of 15 years is also very high at 14 percent for the region with Chad

UNICEF Data

At the same time population growth threatens to result in an ever-higher number of child brides in sub-Saharan Africa during the coming years. Latin America.

Ending child marriage in Africa

If we don't act now the number of girls married as children will double by 2050 and Africa will become the region with the highest number of child brides in

a report on child marriage in africa

young people girls and young women who have experienced child marriage

AFRICAN COMMON POSITION ON THE AU CAMPAIGN TO END

RECOGNIZING Article 21(2) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the. Child that child marriage and the betrothal of girls and boys shall be

CAMPAIGN TO END CHILD MARRIAGE IN AFRICA CALL FOR

UNIÃO AFRICANA. Addis Ababa ETHIOPIA P. O. Box 3243 Website: www.africa-union.org ... 10 Rapport du FNUAP: Marrying Too Young- End Child Marriage.