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Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. Girls who marry before 18 are more likely to experience domestic violence and less likely to remain in school. They have worse economic and health outcomes than their unmarried peers, which are eventually passed down to their own children, straining a country’s capacity to provide quality health and education services.
Child marriage can lead to further isolation from family, friends and communities, and threaten girls’ livelihood and health. In 2016, UNICEF, together with UNFPA , launched a global programme to tackle child marriage in 12 of the most high-prevalence or high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.
The 2022 Global Annual Report serves as a testament to the accomplishments of the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage. It reflects the valuable lessons we've gleaned, our vision for the future, and provides insights into recent trends in child marriage. Despite the significant challenges we confronted in 2022, such as grappling ...
Child marriage affects both girls and boys, but it affects girls disproportionately. It is defined as a marriage of a girl or boy before the age of 18 and refers to both formal marriages and informal unions in which children under the age of 18 live with a partner as if married. Child marriage ends childhood.
Child marriage – a marriage or union before the age 18 – has a disproportionate impact on girls. It curtails their education, compromises their health, exposes them to violence and traps them in poverty, undermining their prospects and potential. Child marriages in parts of Europe and Central Asia may reflect a hardening of gender attitudes ...
Sep 26, 2024 · This scoping review of the evidence base on child marriage from 2000-2019 covers 386 articles that a) focus on child or early marriage or informal unions in lower and middle income countries; b) provide new research insights based on a specified methodology; 3) and are published in English in either peer-reviewed or grey literature. The findings are arranged around 1) prevalence of child marriage, 2) its determinants, correlates and context, 3) its consequences, and 4) interventions to ...
The persistence of child marriage remains a potential deterrent to India’s likelihood of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 by 2030. A key challenge underlying the gap between policy and programme commitments and the realities of child marriage in India is our limited understanding of effective programme strategies that delay marriage and offer girls a greater role in marriage-related decision-making.
Mar 8, 2021 · NEW YORK, 8 March 2021 – Ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF today. COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage – released on International Women’s Day – warns that school closures ...
The practice of child marriage has declined around the world. In the past decade, the proportion of women who were married as children decreased by 15 per cent, from 1 in 4 (25%) to approximately 1 in 5 (21%), that’s around 25 million child marriages that have been prevented. Increasing rates of girls’ education, proactive government ...
Jun 6, 2019 · NEW YORK, 7 June 2019 – An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15. Using data from 82 countries, the study reveals that child marriage among boys is prevalent ...
