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A Child bride in India

Child marriage

At UNICEF, we believe that child marriage is a form of violence against children. Our aim is to avert 500,000 child marriages in the region by 2021.

Tahmina

Tahmina takes a stand against child marriage

“My mother got married when she was just 13 herself and she did not want that life for me,” says Tahmina.

K. Goutami, 17, an adolescent girl who was forced to consider marriage proposals because of family pressure and monetary constraints

South Asia could eliminate child marriage only in 55 years – UNICEF

In South Asia, 1 in 4 young women are still married before 18th birthday, with climate catastrophes, economic shocks and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19 threatening to reverse hard-earned gains

Mosammat Fargana, age 16, is 8 months pregnant, and struggles with health issues

A Profile of child marriage in South Asia

Child marriage is a violation of human rights.

Files available for download (7)

South Asia (PDF, 542 KB)

Afghanistan (PDF, 321 KB)

Bangladesh (PDF, 223 KB)

Bhutan (PDF, 172 KB)

India (PDF, 864 KB)

Nepal (PDF, 187 KB)

Pakistan (PDF, 138 KB)

Maryam in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar

Officials, experts and young people call for renewed efforts to end child marriage in South Asia

New UNICEF study reveals financial pressure and girls being out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic drove many parents in South Asia to marry their daughters

Teen bride. Village Santpur, India

Four ways child marriage destroys children's futures

How child marriage hurts children in South Asia – and their countries

Rima, Rekha, Rima and Rachana

“If nobody stops child marriage, we will"

Highlights from the Rupantaran peer learning and support model in Nepal

12 November 2021

Girls increasingly at risk of child marriage in Afghanistan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

COVER

03 September 2021

The Relationship between Child Labour and Child Marriage

An analysis of different discourses and perspectives on the relationship between child marriage and child labour

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The Relationship between Child Labour and Child Marriage: A Discourse Analysis (PDF, 580 KB)

Rima Bera photo

Use of evidence to end child marriage in South Asia

A baseline study of UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage (Phase II)

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Use of Evidence in the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage in South Asia (PDF, 2 MB)