Child marriage factsheets
These factsheets discuss the harmful practice of child marriage and how it adversely affects the health, education and livelihoods of millions of adolescent girls. Also included are promising community-based approaches to reducing child marriage.
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Child Marriage and Domestic Violence
Child Marriage and Education
Child Marriage and Health
Child Marriage and Poverty
Child Marriage, Laws and Civil Society Action
Child Marriage By the Numbers
Child Marriage Around the World
Success on the Ground: Reducing Child Marriage
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