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“Child marriage: a global human rights tragedy” Senator Dick Durbin addresses the US Senate

Family planning and child brides: fulfilling their right to choose

Evelyn's story, Liberia

UK parliamentarians hear testimony on child marriage; Girls Not Brides reflects

My dream is for every Yemeni girl to live a safe life, Deputy Minister tells UK parliamentarians

  • Jamela Saleh Al-Raiby

“Am I something to be sold?” Child voices at heart of Indian conference on child marriage

20 years see a decline in child marriage among the young in South Asia but older girls still at risk

“School comes first, marriage comes later” declares girls’ rights defender in Chad

  • Adam Kakaye Abakar

World Health Assembly recognises we must address early marriage. It’s now time for WHO action

Is there ever a good reason for child marriage?

  • Rema Nanda, Venkat Reddy, Ann Warner

"There is a sense that the girl child is inferior." Mary Robinson on why The Elders chose to address child marriage

Egypt: New child marriage laws are a step backwards, says Plan International

  • Plan International

Children are the angels of the earth. We must do more to protect them

  • Muhammad Aslam

Eminent Indian leaders champion efforts to end child marriage in India

  • The Population Foundation of India (PFI), The Elders

Girls Not Brides recognised on top 50 list of ideas and solutions improving the lives of girls and women worldwide

  • Girls Not Brides, Women Deliver, Girls Not Brides, Women Deliver

Ending child marriage in South Asia: "a human mission"

Girls Not Brides heads to India to host its first South Asia regional meeting

Human Rights Watch: Child marriage spurs abuse of girls and women in Yemen

Girls Not Brides – A New Global Partnership to End child Marriage announced at 2011 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

  • The Clinton Global Initiative, The Clinton Global Initiative

The facts about child marriage

  • Gro Brundtland, Graça Machel

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