Statement
Empowering women and girls requires renewed efforts to end violence and harmful practices
21 November 2016This is 2016 and yet one in three women worldwide still experiences or has experienced some form of physical or sexual violence, usually perpetrated by someone she knows. Moreover, millions of women and girls have been subjected to other forms of violence and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, which affect an estimated 200 million women and girls, or child marriage, with one in three girls in developing countries being married off before the age of 18.
Ten key facts and figures about 10-year-old girls
Resource date: 20 October 2016
Country Profiles
2017 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
Publication date: 01 August 2018
Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
News
Finding a role model amid confinement of Myanmar’s Rohingya camps
31 July 2018Accelerating and Amplifying Change
2017 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
Number of pages: 107
Publication date: 01 August 2018
Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage
Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF
News
Ethiopian girls learn the skills they need to thrive – and secure their independence
29 August 2018News
In Türkiye, refugee child marriages drive adolescent pregnancies underground
26 July 2018Video
Architect Not Child Bride: A Syrian Girl’s Dream
June 19, 2018Since its opening in 2015, over 1,800 young women and men in Zaatari refugee camp have benefitted from trainings on reproductive health and gender-based violence at the Questscope-UNFPA Youth Centre. This is the story of 16-year-old Yanal, who became an advocate against child marriage after learning about its harms at the UNFPA-supported youth centre in Zaatari. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.
Video
War Torn Girlhood
June 19, 2018The Syrian crisis has left hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls vulnerable to child marriage and in need of adequate gender-based violence, sexual education and reproductive health services. UNFPA is helping to fill this void in Jordan, where 42,000 Syrian refugees are girls between the ages of 12 and 17. This is Asma's story. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.