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Help girls say #IDONT to child marriage
February 1, 2018Valentines Day is a romantic time for couples, but not for these girls. Help them say "I DON'T" to child marriage. Learn more.
Humanitarian Action 2018 Overview
Number of pages: 23
Publication date: 29 January 2018
Author: UNFPA
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Teenage pregnancy in Myanmar: One girl's story
January 24, 2018Every year, almost 50,000 teenage girls in Myanmar give birth, according to 2014 census information. Thiri was one of these girls.
Joint Evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation: Accelerating Change Phase I and II (2008–2017)
Resource date: 01 July 2019
Today, one in four young women will be married in childhood. Child marriage is a human rights violation on a vast scale and a major obstacle to sustainable development. Girls are disproportionately affected; levels of child marriage among boys are about one fifth of the levels among girls. Around 750 million girls and women alive today were married in childhood, and unless progress is accelerated, that number will remain at least as high through 2030.