Eritrea
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Content featuring Eritrea
Report
Child Marriage: A Mapping of Programmes and Partners in Twelve Countries in East and Southern Africa
This is a mapping of programmes and partnerships that seek to address child marriage in East and Southern Africa.
Report
Vows of poverty. 26 countries where child marriage eclipses girls' education
CARE ranks the 26 countries where girls are more likely to be married before the age of 18 than enrolled in secondary school.
Data sources
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- Ending child marriage and harmful traditional practices from Eritrea, 2015, http://slideplayer.com/slide/7264442/ (accessed February 2020).
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- UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Eritrea, 2019, p. 18, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/ERindex.aspx (accessed February 2020).
- UNICEF and UNFPA, Child Marriage: A Mapping of Programmes and Partners in Twelve Countries in East and Southern Africa, 2018, https://esaro.unfpa.org/en/publications/child-marriage-mapping-programmes-and-partners-twelve-countries-east-and-southern (accessed February 2020).
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- UNICEF global databases 2020, based on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and other national surveys. Population data from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online Edition. Rev. 1.
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website], 2017, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 (accessed February 2020).
- Yohannes Abraha, A., Marriage Law in Eritrea: Types and Methods of Proof, 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3201871 (accessed February 2020).