Luxembourg

There is no publicly available government data on child marriage in Luxembourg.

Child marriage is driven by gender inequality and the belief that women and girls are somehow inferior to men and boys.

There is limited information on child marriage in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg has committed to eliminate child, early and forced marriage by 2030 in line with target 5.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The government has not submitted a Voluntary National Review in any High Level Political Forum to date.

Luxembourg has signed the 2021 Human Rights Council resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage in times of crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic

Luxembourg co-sponsored the following Human Rights Council resolutions: the 2013 procedural resolution on child, early and forced marriage, the 2015 resolution on child, early and forced marriage, the 2017 resolution on recognising the need to address child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian contexts, and the 2019 resolution on the consequences of child marriage. In 2014, Luxembourg also signed a joint statement at the Human Rights Council calling for a resolution on child marriage.

Luxembourg co-sponsored the 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2020 UN General Assembly resolutions on child, early and forced marriage.

Luxembourg ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994, which sets a minimum age of marriage of 18, and ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1989, which obligates states to ensure free and full consent to marriage.

In 2018, the CEDAW Committee recommended Luxembourg to expand the collection of data on gender-based violence to include forced marriage for the purpose of policy-making and reporting.

Luxembourg has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence (known as the Istanbul Convention), which considers forced marriage a serious form of violence against women and girls, and legally binds state parties to criminalise the intentional conduct of forcing an adult or child into a marriage.

Under the Civil Code 1992 the minimum legal age of marriage in Luxembourg is 16 years for girls and 18 years for boys. However, it is possible to marry before this with permission of the Grand Duke and parental consent.