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Child marriage

Aminata Sawadogo (right), 16, and Sandrine (left), 17, hugging each other and smiling in Burkina Faso.
Programme
08 January 2019
UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme
Learn how UNICEF and UNFPA are reaching the girls at greatest risk.
Barira Mamoudou, an 18 years old girl, with her daughter Jamilla, in Diffa, Niger.
Programme
08 January 2019
Child marriage
Child marriage threatens the lives, well-being and futures of girls around the world
16 year old Lucy got pregnant at 14, returned to school, got pregnant again and married at 16 during COVID-19 school closures in Malawi. Lucy is now back in school in at Mlale primary school in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Programme
07 January 2019
Harmful practices
Child marriage and female genital mutilation are internationally recognized human rights violations.
Document
10 March 2023
Evidence review: Child marriage interventions and research from 2020 to 2022

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English (PDF, 3 MB)
Document
10 March 2023
How to ensure efforts to address child marriage reach the most marginalized girls

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English (PDF, 592 KB)
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo visits the Centre de Nutrition Therapeutique (Centre for Therapeutic Nutrition) in Benin
Press release
19 December 2022
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo celebrates resilience of girls and young people during visit to Benin
Trip marks Kidjo’s 20-year anniversary as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Document
16 December 2022
Successful multisectoral and multilevel approaches to address child marriage

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English (PDF, 1 MB)
French (PDF, 1 MB)
Spanish (PDF, 1 MB)
Barira Mamoudou, a 18 years old girl, in Diffa, in the extreme southeast of Niger. Today is her wedding day and she chooses a marriage out of love but she was married off against her will at the age of 14.
Document
20 September 2022
Child marriage annual report 2021

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Annual report (PDF, 9 MB)
Country profiles (PDF, 11 MB)
Bangladesh profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Burkina Faso profile - English (PDF, 1 MB)
Burkina Faso profile - French (PDF, 2 MB)
Ethiopia profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Ghana profile (PDF, 1 MB)
India profile (PDF, 2 MB)
Mozambique profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Nepal profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Niger profile - English (PDF, 1 MB)
Niger profile - French (PDF, 2 MB)
Sierra Leone profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Uganda profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Yemen profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Zambia profile (PDF, 1 MB)
Document
01 September 2022
Child marriage research spotlight

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English (PDF, 1 MB)
An adolescent girl participates in a ‘Young Reporters Workshop', which empowers young people to defend their rights and become actors in decisions that affect them.
Document
29 August 2022
Innovative Financing for Elimination of Harmful Practices

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Options paper: Overview (PDF, 5 MB)
Option: Framework for government collaboration (PDF, 1 MB)
Option: Global Endowment (PDF, 1 MB)
Option: Global revolving fund (PDF, 2 MB)
Option: Impact bonds (PDF, 1 MB)