Focus on Child Marriage, Genital Mutilation at All-Time High
Category
Adolescents and Youth, Child Marriage, Violence Against Women and Girls
News Organization
IPS News Agency
Publication Date
23 July 2014
Publication Author
Julia Hotz
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ICRW’s Ann Warner, senior gender and youth specialist, and Lyric Thompson, senior policy manager, give their reactions to commitments made by the UK and US governments in a global effort to end child marriage and female genital mutilation during the first annual Girls Summit.
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