UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage
Through the Global Programme, adolescent girls are gaining key skills and learning about their rights.
Join us in ending child marriage
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.