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Child marriage refers to any formal marriage or informal union between a child under the age of 18 and an adult or another child. Despite a steady decline in this harmful practice over the past decade, child marriage remains widespread, with approximately one in five girls married in childhood across the globe.
2 de feb. de 2022 · Child marriage | United Nations Population Fund. Home. Child marriage is a human rights violation. Despite laws against it, the practice remains widespread: Globally, one in every five girls is formally married or in an informal union, before reaching age 18.
6 de abr. de 2024 · Over a long-term, 15-year period, in 12 countries across four regions, the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage is working with multiple partners to achieve gender-transformative change and ultimately to end child marriage – while its full reach and impact goes well beyond.
A child marriage is considered to be a form of forced marriage, given that one and/or both parties have not expressed full, free and informed consent. One in every five girls is married Worldwide, more than 650 million women alive today were married as children.
Child marriage, defined as a formal marriage or informal union before the age of 18, is a fundamental violation of human rights, threatening the lives, well-being and futures of girls around the world.
Suggested citation: United Nations Children’s Fund, Towards Ending Child Marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress, UNICEF, New York, 2021. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The preparation of this publication was led by Claudia Cappa (Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF Headquarters), with inputs from Colleen Murray (Data and Analytics
