Every two seconds, a child becomes a victim of forced marriage.1 This egregious child rights violation robs millions of their childhoods, substituting a life of misery and hardship.
Girls like Maria*, who at 13 was forced to become the sixth wife of a 70-year-old man. When she resisted, her father told her: “If you don’t go to join your husband, I will kill you.”2
Join our movement to end forced child marriage and help girls like Maria.
Right now world leaders, government officials and civil society can make ending forced marriage a priority. Sustainable Development Goal 5.3 has put ending forced marriage on the global agenda and with our support for this goal we can help change the lives of girls like Maria for the better.
But we need people like you to help push governments and civil society to make ending this abhorrent practice a priority.
Case by case, country by country, we will push lawmakers and politicians to protect children from this abhorrent practice.
Want to know more about forced child marriage around the world – check out our blog here!
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Choice seems sadly being eradicated and the right to marry or not to marry or whom to marry are inalienable rights. Let us fight for this for everyone.
This is barely about rights, and it’s certainly not really about marriage. It’s about child rape and other forms of extreme violence. It’s about slavery. It’s about men treating women and girls like worthless garbage to be used as trade. It’s about the tolerance of this behavior all over the world, if even in secrecy. Fight is exactly right. Women out number men on this planet by a huge margin. It’s time WE stop tolerating crimes against our children and ourselves.
I really want to come to a meeting or class here in Los Angeles California.. do you have or have I missed another one?
This disgusts me a child of that age is a child, shes not fully developed until 16 years old, that man should know better hes a grandfather probably does he have any idea what he is doing, my daughter is involved with an older man butbshes now 42, shebfirst started dating him at 27 years old, hes 35 years older than her what is the fascination for older men wanting younger girls, theyre bloody perverts , phadeos , it makes me sick to the core, I pray and pray this gets stopped never to happen .
You have the power to put an end to this truly wicked state of affairs. Please just do it!
Where’s the UN & the rights of the child? Sitting in their mansions -having meetings -doing nothing!!
They are beyond useless and need to be defunded.