Girls Not Brides media statement on UN General Assembly resolution on child, early and forced marriage - Girls Not Brides
The
Global Partnership to End Child Marriage welcomes this historic UN
resolution. The resolution demonstrates the broad international
consensus that urgent action is needed to end child marriage, a practice
that hold back 15 million girls a year, or about 41,000 a day, denying
them fundamental rights and undermining their future.
If there
is no reduction in child marriage, 1.2 billion girls will marry as
children by 2050 – equivalent to the entire population of India.
