Posts Tagged ‘Girls Not Brides’
The World We Want
End Child Marriage Every year, approximately 14 million girls are married before they turn 18, robbed of their rights to education, health and a life free of violence. Child marriage undermines our efforts to build a healthier, safer, just and more prosperous world for all. Solutions exist. Child marriage can end. But we must work together.…
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Child Marriage in Africa Child marriage is very prevalent in Africa. A young Zambian women wrote a song about child marriage and got her classmates sing it with her. Girls Not Brides filmed the song launching the video on the Day of the African Child (June 16)
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Check List from GIRLS NOT BRIDES GIRLS NOT BRIDES is a civil society partnership of more than 550 member organisations that are based in over 70 countries. Their aim is to give the issue of child marriage worldwide attention so that strategies can be put in place to end it. In February 2016 they issued A…
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ICRW Research Reported at the UN A blueprint summarizing five strategies identified by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) used to effectively address child marriage was released at the United Nations General Assembly in New York recently. ICRW stresses that “ending child marriage must be a priority in the next generation of development…
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