Child marriage is a global issue. It is fuelled by gender inequality, poverty, social norms and insecurity, and has devastating consequences all over the world.
Explore our vision and mission to end child marriage, learn about our organisational structure, and discover how we work as a global partnership to drive change and empower girls worldwide.
Girls Not Brides members are civil society organisations committed to working together to end child marriage and support married girls. Our strength is our diversity.
Discover tools, resources and events to learn more about child marriage and related issues, and be successful in your advocacy, youth activism and fundraising.
Discover the latest news and stories about child marriage, and the work our member organisations and partners in the broader movement are doing to end it.
All around the world, adolescent girls living in poverty face unequal power dynamics that affect their everyday lives. This impacts their capacity to get the support they need, and to make their own decisions about various aspects of their lives.
These structural inequalities shape their ability to claim their rights, such as a right to be listened to, to access quality education and information, support services, and community spaces, to make decisions about their own bodies or to live free from violence and child marriage.
Girl-led research aims to provide an opportunity to shift power back to girls' building a sense of self-confidence, providing opportunities to connect with peers, mentors and supporters, and to take action to share research results and express their power to make change.
This project is a collaboration between ActionAid Bangladesh, ActionAid Ethiopia, ActionAid UK and ActionAid Yappika (Indonesia). Girl-led research teams in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Indonesia designed this research and carried out both the data collection and analysis.
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