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Saying no to child marriage
In India, Child Protection Committees provide a safe environment in which people can talk about issues without the fear of backlash or being stigmatized - and can act as agents of change. Read more >
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On Stage Against Child Marriage
Anita joined the theatre group a year and a half ago after her parents planned for Anita's marriage, which she refused. Read more >
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Preventing Child Marriage through Economic Independence
MALDA, India, 7 Febrauary 2012 – Aksha Bibi, a village health worker and a member of women's self help group, knows how a child marriage can disrupt a girl's life and have harmful consequences to her health and education. Read more >
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A Child Bride Campaigns Against Child Marriage
Poverty was the precipitating factor in Nargis's case. She was married shortly after her father died, the loss plunging the struggling family even deeper into poverty. Nargis's mother in desperation accepted the marriage proposal. Read more >
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Female teaching recruits are agents of change in rural Nigeria
KATSINA STATE, Nigeria – 1 August 2012- The first thing that strikes you is their sense of confidence. Women with faces framed by colorful headscarves hold dynamic discussions in a packed classroom at the Isa Kaita College of Education. They consider themselves to be "village girls" but there's nothing ordinary about them. Read more >
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Safe PLaCES help flood-affected children and women prevent child marriage in Pakistan
SINDH PROVINCE, Pakistan, 6 December 2011: A new type of UNICEF integrated emergency facility is providing protection and assistance to tens of thousands of flood-displaced children and women in Pakistan.Read more >
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira promotes girls' education in India
UDAIPUR, Rajasthan – 21 November 2011 - Their worlds could hardly be more different – Shakira, the pop superstar and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, 34, independent, sassy, a household name – used to the glitz and glamour of the world stage. And a group of poor, young Rajasthani girls – four of them already married off before they turned 11; all of them the first females in their families ever to be educated. Read more >
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UNICEF works to convince remote communities in Pakistan to abandon child marriage
SALEWALA, Pakistan, 16 March 2011- Pakistan's disastrous flood last July has created an opportunity to convince rural communities to stop pushing girls into child marriages. Read more >
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UNICEF helps to begin changing attitudes towards early marriage in Niger
MARADI, Niger, 23 December 2010 – Sahira, 15, sits in front of a social worker at the Office of the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children with a blank stare on her face. She has run away after being forced to marry a man she had never met who is three times her age. Read more >
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UNICEF-EC programme gives a second chance to a would-be child bride in India
NEW YORK, USA, 22 April 2010 – Bablu, 15, lives with her family in a small village in rural Rajasthan. She was 13 when her community decided she should be married. "I did not want to get married," she said. "I thought my life would be completely ruined". Read more >
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Defying the pressure to marry young in India
RAJASTHAN, India, 22 January 2010 – When Asu Kawar was 13-years-old, her community and family decided that she should be married to a man more than twice her age. Read more >
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