Research study on child marriage in Italy

Child marriage is a serious human rights violation and form of sexual violence against
children. This document, created at the initiative of No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) with the support of The Circle Italia, is the result of an exploratory survey that lays the foundations for an advocacy campaign against child marriages in the Italian territory.

NPWJ aims to raise awareness and mobilise stakeholders to fultil the international human rights standards that the Italian State has committed to respect, highlighting and facilitating the dissemination of positive actions already carried out at local, regional and national level.

This study analyses the issue of child marriages and its incidence, the legislation in force at the national and international levels, and the actions implemented by different governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, both in Italy and beyond.

The three main outputs of the bibliographical study consist of (1) a mapping of the relevant stakeholders in the Italian territory; (2) a review of the actions carried out in the last 10 years in Italy and beyond; and consequently, (3) the identification of the best practices by institutional and civil society actors and the evaluation of their potential scalability in the various Italian realities.