Liberia
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Content featuring Liberia
Fact sheet and brief
Girls’ education and child marriage
Brief exploring the key facts, two-way impacts, common drivers and solutions on education and child marriage. Updated in September 2022.
Blog
How are young people leading change to end child marriage in Liberia?
Fact sheet and brief
Child marriage in West & Central Africa
This brief provides an overview of child marriage in West and Central Africa and includes recommendations on how to address it.
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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- African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, [website], 2018, https://au.int/en/treaties/protocol-african-charter-human-and-peoples-rights-rights-women-africa (accessed January 2020).
- African Union, Campaign to End Child Marriage in Africa: Call to Action, 2013, https://au.int/sites/default/files/pages/32905-file-campaign_to_end_child_marriage_in_africa_call_for_action-_english.pdf (accessed February 2020).
- ECOWAS, ECOWAS First Ladies affirm Commitment to End Child Marriage and Promote Girl-Child Education in the Region, [website], 2019, https://www.ecowas.int/ecowas-first-ladies-affirm-commitment-to-end-child-marriage-and-promote-girl-child-education-in-the-region/ (accessed February 2020).
- ECOWAS, Final Communique. Fifty-fifth Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, 2019, https://www.ecowas.int/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Final-Communiqué_55th-Summit_Abuja_29-June-2019-1.pdf (accessed February 2020).
- Girls Not Brides, Liberia Launches the African Union Campaign To End Child Marriage, [website], 2017, https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/articles/liberia-launches-african-union-campaign-end-child-marriage/ (accessed February 2020).
- Global Partnership for Education, Liberia, [website], https://www.globalpartnership.org/where-we-work/liberia (accessed February 2020).
- Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Liberia: The Sande secret society, its activities, organization, leaders and consequences of refusing the role of leader; Sande's power, its treatment of those who speak out against or oppose its practices; state protection for individuals threatened by Sande, 2017, https://www.refworld.org/docid/58cff6114.html (accessed February 2020).
- Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, National AIDS Control Program and ICF International, Liberia Demographic and Health Survey 2013, 2014, https://dhsprogram.com/what-we-do/survey/survey-display-435.cfm (accessed February 2020).
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Joint statement on child, early and forced marriage, HRC 27, Agenda Item 3, [website], 2014, http://fngeneve.um.dk/en/aboutus/statements/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=6371ad93-8fb0-4c35-b186-820fa996d379 (accessed February 2020).
- OECD Social Institutions & Gender Index, Liberia, 2019, https://www.genderindex.org/wp-content/uploads/files/datasheets/2019/LR.pdf (accessed February 2020).
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- The World Bank, Teenage mothers (% of women ages 15-19 who have had children or are currently pregnant) - Liberia, [website], https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.MTR.1519.ZS?locations=LR (accessed February 2020).
- UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Liberia,2015, p.20, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/LRindex.aspx (accessed February 2020).
- UNFPA Liberia, Traditional Leaders in Liberia Commit to Ending Child Marriage, [website], 2019, https://liberia.unfpa.org/en/news/traditional-leaders-liberia-commit-ending-child-marriage (accessed February 2020).
- UNICEF, The Situation of Children and Women in Liberia 2012, From Conflict to Peace, 2012.
- 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).