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Child marriage, female genital mutilation urgent priorities as pandemic threatens progress
- 01 February 2021
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UNFPA and UNICEF renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage
10 Mar 2020
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Resources
Investing in Knowledge for Ending Child Marriage Publications Catalogue 2018-2019
Resource date: Dec 2019
Author: UNFPA and UNICEF
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Ending Child Marriage and Rewriting the Future of Adolescent Girls
Resource date: May 2018
Author: UNFPA
Child marriage, defined as a formal marriage or informal union before age 18, is a global issue impacting the lives of millions of girls each year and hindering progress towards development the world over. Globally, more than 700 million girls and women alive today were married as children. More than one in three of these (about 250 million) entered into union before age 15. This report to the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation covers the period of 2015 to 2017.
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In Uganda, surviving rape and child marriage one plait at a time
- 14 October 2019
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Community-led enforcement shows the way on ending child marriage in Ethiopia
- 11 October 2019
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Resources
Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage Country Profiles 2018
Resource date: Aug 2019
Author: UNFPA, UNICEF
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Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage Annual Report 2018
Resource date: Aug 2019
Author: UNFPA and UNCIEF
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Combating child marriage in Nepal
Published on: 14/05/2019
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The future at her fingertips: What happens when girls say #IDONT
- 01 February 2019
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