The devastating impact of child marriage Health: Five times more likely to die in childbirth

2. The devastating impact of child marriage • Health: Five times more likely to die in childbirth • Education: Schooling often ends with marriage • Human rights violation

3. Why does child marriage happen? • Tradition • Gender roles • Poverty • Security

4. Why act to end child marriage now? • Large scale; little action • 25,000 girls every day • 10 million girls/year • Direct impact on development goals • Lost potential of millions of girls

5. What are the solutions? Empowering girls with information, skills, and support networks Educating and mobilising parents and community members Enhancing the accessibility and quality of formal schooling for girls Offering economic support and incentives for girls and their families Fostering an enabling legal and policy framework

6. Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage • Our members are working in partnership to: • Raise awareness about the impact and solutions • Empower those seeking to end child marriage • Call for global action • Give girls a voice

7. What action can be taken by the UN human rights machinery? • Recognise child marriage as a cross-cutting human rights issue • Implement the recommendations of treaty monitoring bodies • Encourage UN special rapporteurs to report on child marriage • Highlight child marriage in the Universal Periodic Review

8. ‘Let girls be girls, not brides’ www.icrw.org www.GirlsNotBrides.org