This report is a clarion call to decision makers, parents, communities and to the world to end child marriage. It documents the current [...]
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Ending Child Marriage
Around the world, marriage is often idealized as ushering in love, happiness, and security. But for Sharon and other girls, getting [...]
Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects
Ending child marriage will help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty by allowing girls and women to participate more fully in [...]
Too Young to Wed
Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are forced into marriage. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and [...]
Hidden Connections: Climate Change and Child Marriage in Bangladesh
Here are two seemingly unrelated facts: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries when it comes to the effects of climate [...]
Early Marriage” – A Film about Early Marriage in Turkana, Kenya
Kalasha Award nomination 2015. Produced by FilmAid, this film is shown to the Turkana community, located in Northwestern Kenya, to [...]
Too Young to Wed, The Secret World of Child Brides
Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are forced into marriage. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and [...]
Child Brides
A closer look at early child marriage around the world, tales of heartbreak and of hope. Watch the Video
American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States
Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But [...]
Ending Child Marriage
Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy [...]
No Way Out: Child Marriage and Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania
This 75-page report documents how child marriage severely curtails girls’ access to education, and exposes them to exploitation and [...]
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali’s childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. [...]