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Find here reports, policy briefs and factsheets about child marriage, as well as capacity-building tools for organisations and individuals working to end child marriage.
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Adolescent fertility in low and middle-income countries: Effects and solutions
This paper looks at various socioeconomic consequences of and methods to reduce adolescent fertility in the developing world and recommends a shift to a rights-based approach.
“I had to run away” - The imprisonment of women and girls for “moral crimes” in Afghanistan
This report focuses on women and girls, including victims of underage marriage, charged with the moral crimes of running away and zina (sex outside of marriage) in Afghanistan
A closer look at forced and early marriage in African immigrant communities in New York City
Addresses the practice of forced and early marriage from the perspective of a community-based organisation working with African immigrant communities in New York. Includes a focus on gender and youth.…
Using data to see and select the most vulnerable adolescent girls
This brief by Population Council provides guidance, as well as tools & resources, on how to use data to identify and target vulnerable adolescent girls and shape policies.
Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries
Policy brief related to WHO report: ‘Preventing Early Pregnancy and Poor Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Adolescents in Developing Countries’. Stresses the close link between child marriage and adolescent pregnancy.
Les droits sexuels et l’Examen Périodique Universel: Une trousse à outils pour les militants
Développé par la Fédération Internationale pour la Planification Familiale (IPPF) et l’Initiative pour les Droits Sexuels (SRI), cette trousse à outils vous aidera à mettre en lumière au plan international…
Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence against Women
Developed by UN Women and SAY NO UNiTE, this Handbook brings together current knowledge on effective policy for the prevention of, and response to, violence against women, and concretely demonstrates…
No place for children: child recruitment, forced marriage and attacks on schools
Details unlawful recruitment and other laws-of-war violations against children, including forced and early marriage, by all parties to the conflict in Somalia since 2010.
Learning from cases of girls’ rights
Equality Now established the Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund to support and publicise legal cases that address the most common and significant human rights abuses of adolescent girls. The report…
Progress for children: A report card on adolescents
Notes that early marriage frequently leads to early childbirth – the leading cause of death for adolescent girls in Africa. Provides graphs depicting population trends and child marriage, spousal violence…
Preventing child marriages: First international day of the girl child 'my life, my right, end child marriage'
In 2012, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 11 October as the day of the girl child with child marriage as the first ever theme.
The effect of reproductive health communication interventions on age at marriage and first birth in rural Bihar, India: A retrospective study
This paper analyses an education project aimed at increasing the age of marriage and first birth in rural Bihar, India using community-based communication programmes.