About child marriage

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.

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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.

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Our Partnership

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.

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Discover tools, resources and events to learn more about child marriage and related issues, and be successful in your advocacy, youth activism and fundraising.

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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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Report

The role of identification in ending child marriage

This report looks at how well-functioning civil registration systems, providing girls with effective birth certificates, play a crucial role in enforcing child marriage laws.
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Today 171 million children under five are unregistered at birth, leaving them without a legal identity, legal protection or a way to obtain benefits and opportunities.

This report looks at the important role birth registration has in providing girls and officials with indisputable proof of age when it comes to marriage. Drawing on case studies from Indonesia and Jordan, the report provides recommendations of how to remove barriers for birth and marriage registration, which in turn helps to enforce minimum age of marriage laws.

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