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Here you'll find the latest news and stories about child marriage, and the work our member organisations and partners in the broader movement are doing to end the harmful practice.

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"Early marriage: one size too big!", says new Turkish report

  • Flying Broom

New film sheds light on forced and early marriage in Senegal

  • Jeremy Teicher

Salma's story, Pakistan

"Let us measure up as men"

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Child marriage happens in the UK too, warn British MPs

Child marriage can end, activists from Chad and Cameroon tell Radio France

Child bride or slave? The girls in Niger who are both

  • Sarah Mathewson

“Women and girls who are forced to marry spend their lifetime in slavery” UN special rapporteur

Presentations from workshop on national collaboration to end child marriage

“Girls are old at 20”: The social pressure behind child marriage in Bangladesh

  • Tithe Farhana

Coming of age in the Maasai community - BBC podcast

Building an African movement to end child marriage

Mobilising spiritual leaders to prevent child marriage in Kenya

  • Wanjala Wafula

When we empower girls, everybody benefits

  • Graça Machel

EveryChild Malawi urges government to address child marriage

  • Brussels Mughogo

On first International Day of the Girl, Girls Not Brides members call for action on child marriage

A ‘brave’ stand: The fight to end forced marriage

  • General Counsel of the AHA Foundation

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "let girls be girls, not brides"

A promise to girls

  • Ela Bhatt, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Findings from India: low self-esteem leaves girls vulnerable to child marriage

  • Dr. Ashok Dyalchand

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