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Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is an international non-governmental organization with the mission to end child marriage throughout the world. [1] The organization was created by The Elders to enable small groups from around the world to address the common issue of early marriage.
Girls Not Brides became a fully independent organization, spun off from The Elders, in 2013. In July 2016, The Elders welcomed action taken by leaders in The Gambia , Tanzania and Uganda to end child marriage, as part of the African Union 's continent-wide campaign to eradicate the harmful practice.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington, D.C., United States, New Delhi, Ranchi, and Jamtara, India, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. ICRW works to promote gender equity, inclusion and shared prosperity within the field of international development.
Cecile Reynaud is the Legacy Award recipient for the Oasis Center Women & Girls 2024 Women's History Honors. Meet the Oasis 2024 honorees. We are pleased to announce our 2024 honorees, which were ...
The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry. ‘They’re girls, not wives’: Colombia ...
In an article about al-Ahdal, the International Political Forum stated "Some statistics can help put her story in context: According to the United Nations, one out of nine girls in developing countries will be married by age 15, and an estimated 14.2 million girls a year will probably become child brides in the next decade." [13]
In 2017 in Ethiopia, 40% of girls are married off before 18 years old. 14% are married before they turn 15. [1] Ethiopia is the 16th highest nation in the world for child marriage. Part of a series on
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