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Child marriages in parts of Europe and Central Asia may reflect a hardening of gender attitudes that reinforce stereotypical roles for girls and limit their opportunities. Child marriage is often linked to patriarchal attitudes towards girls, including the need to safeguard family ‘honour’.
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- Preventing Child Marriage
KEY FACTS. Child marriage is a violation of human rights. about child marriage. Every child in the Middle East and North Africa has the right to be protected from this harmful practice, which has devastating consequences for girls and for society.
9 paź 2024 · This scoping review of the evidence base on child marriage from 2000-2019 covers 386 articles that a) focus on child or early marriage or informal unions in lower and middle income countries; b) provide new research insights based on a specified methodology; 3) and are published in English in either peer-reviewed or grey literature.
Levels of child marriage remain low in East Asia and the Pacific and in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, though girls from disadvantaged populations are still at risk. While the global reduction in child marriage is to be celebrated, no region is on track to meet the SDG target of eliminating this harmful practice by 2030. © UNICEF/UNI43945 ...
4 dni temu · Early marriage refers to any formal or informal union between a male and female under the age of 18 worldwide; 21% of women alive in 2020 were married before their 18th birthday, and about 12 million girls under 18 are married each year—this is about 23 girls married as children every minute [].Globally, marriage is widely celebrated as a significant milestone in adult life, recognized as a ...
1 mar 2022 · This review uncovers an exponential rise in evidence on child marriage, especially in South Asia and SSA. Growth in the volume of research publications also suggests that interest in child marriage, particularly in documenting the problem, has caught on in LAC, MENA, and in East Asia and the Pacific.
In the Middle East and North Africa, substantial progress in Introduction reducing the prevalence of child marriage has been made over the past 25 years, but within the last decade, progress appears to have slowed. In Latin America and the Caribbean, levels of child marriage today are as high as they were 25 years ago. In contrast, a girl’s risk
