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PDF	EGYPT Country Brief EGYPT - Regional Study on Child Marriage 1. UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional O ce. EGYPT. Country Brief. UNICEF Regional Study on Child Marriage. In

PDF	ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE Child marriage refers to children who get married before reaching the age of 5 UNICEF 2014. A Statistical Snapshot of Violence against Adolescent Girls ...

PDF	Towards Ending Child Marriage Suggested citation: United Nations Children's Fund. Towards Ending Child Marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress

PDF	Towards Ending Child Marriage Sources: The data on child marriage that appear in all the charts in this chapter are from UNICEF global databases 2021

PDF	UNICEF Data Still approximately 650 million girls and women alive today were married before their 18th birthday. Child marriage is an egregious violation of every child's

PDF	A Profile of Child Marriage and Early Unions in Latin America and The photos in this publication are drawn from an award-winning communications campaign on child marriage launched by UNICEF Dominican Republic.

PDF	UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage ٠٩‏/١٢‏/٢٠٢٠ Yemen is home to 4 million child brides. Of these 1.4 million married before age 15. Source: UNICEF global databases

PDF	Child marriage in humanitarian settings: According to a recent multi- country secondary analysis conducted by UNICEF and ESCWA on the impact of conflict on children child marriage was one of the

PDF	UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage ٠٩‏/١٢‏/٢٠٢٠ Niger is home to 5 million child brides. Of these 1.9 million married before age 15. Source: UNICEF global databases

PDF	Child Marriage in West and Central Africa The UNICEF West and Central Africa. Regional Office has also prioritized it as one of our eight Key Results for Children. Our strategic approach to ending the

PDF	UNICEF Data Still approximately 650 million girls and women alive today were married before their 18th birthday. Child marriage is an egregious violation of every child's

PDF	UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage Niger is home to 5 million child brides. Of these 1.9 million married before age 15. Source: UNICEF global databases

PDF	UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage Yemen is home to 4 million child brides. Of these 1.4 million married before age 15. Source: UNICEF global databases

PDF	Child-marriage-Burkina-Faso-profile-2019.pdf Burkina Faso is home to. 3 million child brides. Of these 500

PDF	Child Marriage in West and Central Africa UNFPA and UNICEF senior management provided overall leadership for the development of this document. Acknowledgments. September 2018. Page 3. 3.

PDF	A Profile of Child Marriage and Early Unions in Latin America and The photos in this publication are drawn from an award-winning communications campaign on child marriage launched by UNICEF Dominican Republic.

PDF	Child-marriage-country-profile-India-2021.pdf UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage. 2020 COUNTRY PROFILES INDIA. INDIA. Percentage of women aged. 20–24 years who were first married or in

PDF	UNICEF Data including currently married girls and women who were first married in childhood. The world is home to. 650 million child brides. In the past 25 years the

PDF	UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage Nepal is home to 5 million child brides. Of these 1.3 million married before age 15. Source: UNICEF global databases

PDF	Child marriage in humanitarian settings: According to a recent multi- country secondary analysis conducted by UNICEF and ESCWA on the impact of conflict on children child marriage was one of the

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CHILD MARRIAGE AND THE LAW: TECHNICAL NOTE FOR THE - UNICEF

marriage the note touches on many different legal dimensions related to child marriage: different types of law (civil family criminal); different legal systems (formal statutory informal customary and religious); and legislative reform promotion of the law and the application of existing laws

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Child marriage UNICEF

• Child marriage is a harmful practice detrimental to girls’ well-being and in violation of their rights • It is becoming less common Still it affects 650 million girls and women around the world and global progress is not fast enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of eliminating child marriage by 2030

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IS AN END TO CHILD MARRIAGE WITHIN REACH? - UNICEF DATA

child marriage and a reference group among whom the definition is applied This standard indicator uses a commonly accepted definition of child marriage that includes formal marriage and informal unions before the age of 18 The use of the reference group of women aged 20 to 24 years is not fundamental to the definition

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EARLY - unicef-ircorg

Article XXIof the 1990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Childstates: Child marriage and the betrothal of girls and boys shall be prohibited and effective action including legislation shall be taken to specify the minimum age of marriage to be eighteen years Early Marriage and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Overview
This article is about the global problem of child marriages, which affects millions of young girls worldwide, leading to a range of negative consequences for their health, future and family as well as imposing substantial economic costs at the national level with major implications for development and prosperity. The United Nations Sustainable Deve...
Child Marriage
Child marriage refers to any formal or informal union between a child under 18 and an adult or another child. The prevalence of child marriage has decreased worldwide, but remains widespread with up to 10 million more girls at risk due to COVID-19. The UN calls for global action to end this human rights violation by 2030.
Factors Enabling
Addressing child marriage requires recognition of the factors that enable it such as poverty, lack of educational opportunities, limited access to health care, gender roles and stereotypes around marriage age, socio-economic risk of pregnancy outside of marriage.

What is UNICEF's Global Programme to end child marriage?

In 2016, UNICEF, together with UNFPA, launched the Global Programme to End Child Marriage. Empowering young girls at risk of marriage or already in union, the programme have reached more than 14 million adolescent girls with life-skills training, comprehensive sexuality education and school attendance support since 2016.

What data do you need to know about child marriage?

Data sources: The analysis on trends in child marriage is based on the prevalence of the practice as measured in the DHS 2000, 2005, 2011 and 2016. Data on GDP per capita are from the World Bank and OECD, 2021. Data on poverty are from the World Bank, 2021. Data on education are from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2020.

What is child marriage & how does it affect girls?

Child marriage threatens the lives, well-being and futures of girls around the world. Child marriage refers to any formal marriage or informal union between a child under the age of 18 and an adult or another child.

Will child marriage be eliminated by 2030?

Despite global advances, reductions are not fast enough to meet the target of eliminating the practice by 2030. In fact, at the current rate, it will take another 300 years until child marriage is eliminated.

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PDF	Ending Child Marriage - UNICEF ages 15 and 18, in the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married before

PDF	Child Marriage - UNICEF Data The global number of child brides is now estimated at 650 million, including girls under age 18 who have already married, and adult women who married in

PDF	A Profile of Child Marriage and Early Unions - UNICEF Data The photos in this publication are drawn from an award-winning communications campaign on child marriage launched by UNICEF Dominican Republic entitled

PDF	Country Brief MOROCCO - UNICEF The most recent nationally representative survey including indicators of child marriage in Moroc- co was the Population and Family Health Survey (ENPSF)

PDF	Child Marriage - UNICEF Parents may consent to child marriages out of economic necessity Marriage may be seen as a way to provide male guardianship for their daughters, protect them

PDF	Ending Child Marriage - UNICEF The prevalence of child marriage varies across states and union territories in India Over 40 per cent of young women were married before turning 18 in

PDF	Achieving a Future without Child Marriage - UNICEF Data region, 1 in 3 was married before age 15 West and Central Africa encompasses 6 of the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world

PDF	UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action - OHCHR 853 schools · Child marriage is most common in West and Central Africa, where more than 4 in 10 girls were married before age 18; about 1 in 7 were married or in

PDF	Ending Child Marriage - United Nations Population Fund millions of girls and young women forced into child marriages Globally, vulnerable The UNICEF statistical study on child marriage confirms that the practice is

PDF	EARLY MARRIAGE - Facts for Life In 2003, UNICEF and partners agreed to focus on five indicators related to child marriage: □ Percentage of women first in union by age 18 by age group (15–19,