Despite efforts to end child marriage globally, an estimated 12 million girls are still married each year. West and Central Africa home to six of the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of ...

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The women's rights group, however, commended many African States for making strides towards amending laws on child marriage in compliance with international and regional human rights obligations.

Child rights advocates applaud the new Marriage Bill aimed at banning marriages for those under 18, while calling for enhanced education and protection services ...

Child marriage is also a growing concern among refugee children, including those from Myanmar and the Central African Republic. Rizwana’s leadership skills led her to being selected as a Save the ...

The current draft bill proposes that the legal age to marry should be 18. The portfolio committee on home affairs recently ...

Child marriage disproportionately affects girls and is found nearly everywhere. It is particularly widespread in South Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than half of the girls in some ...

Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping ... I was told how a married woman who has no male child in her family is allowed to marry a woman so that a male child can be born ...