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Apr 21, 2023 · Any individual found guilty of arranging a child marriage, regardless of whether force is used or not, is now committing a criminal offence and could face up to seven years in prison. This Act forms part of the government’s ongoing commitment to address violence against women and girls.
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This article is about the global problem of child marriages, which affects millions of young girls worldwide, leading to a range of negative consequences for their health, future and family as well as imposing substantial economic costs at the national level with major implications for development and prosperity. The United Nations Sustainable Deve...
Child marriage refers to any formal or informal union between a child under 18 and an adult or another child. The prevalence of child marriage has decreased worldwide, but remains widespread with up to 10 million more girls at risk due to COVID-19. The UN calls for global action to end this human rights violation by 2030.
Addressing child marriage requires recognition of the factors that enable it such as poverty, lack of educational opportunities, limited access to health care, gender roles and stereotypes around marriage age, socio-economic risk of pregnancy outside of marriage.
In 2016, UNICEF launched the Global Programme to End Child Marriage which empowers young girls at risk through life-skills training and comprehensive sexuality education reaching over 14 million adolescent girls since 2016 with 177 million people engaged in efforts to support adolescent girls.
Countries take different legal approaches to child marriage. Some make child marriage a crime, some ban or invalidate marriage below the legal minimum age and others merely prescribe a minimum age of marriage without expressly criminalising or banning it.
May 4, 2021 · The campaigners' letter claims marriage for those aged under 18 is one of the most hidden forms of violence against women and girls taking place in the UK. It says current forced marriage law...
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England, Scotland and Wales recognise forced marriage as a criminal offence under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. For Northern Ireland it is the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act 2015.
Jun 16, 2021 · Understandably, children are often too afraid to speak out against their family, making it hard to prove . We need to see a change in the law that makes clear that child marriage itself is...
Feb 27, 2023 · new criminal offence to cause a child to marry, with sentence up to 7 years in prison; offence includes forced marriage in non-legally binding ceremonies
