Nauru

Mariage d'enfants à 15 ans

Mariage d'enfants à 18 ans

Y a-t-il des organisations membres de Filles, Pas Epouses ?	Non
Y a-t-il une stratégie ou un plan national pour ce pays ?	Non
Existe-t-il un partenariat ou une coalition nationale de Filles, Pas Epouses ?	Non
L'âge du mariage sans tenir compte du consentement ou des exceptions	Âge légal du mariage : 18 ans ou plus, sans exception

Quel est le taux de prévalence ?

27% of girls in Nauru are married before their 18th birthday and 2% are married before the age of 15.

12% of Nauruan boys are married before the age of 18.

Quelles sont les causes du mariage des enfants dans ce pays ?

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 Nauru.

In Nauru, child marriage is exacerbated by:

Adolescent pregnancy: The age at marriage is a determinant of fertility as Nauruan women who marry younger are more likely to have more children. 22% of girls give birth before the age of 18.

Quels engagements internationaux, régionaux et nationaux ont été pris par ce pays ?

Nauru 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.

Nauru co-sponsored the 2014 UN General Assembly resolution on child, early and forced marriage.

Nauru acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994, which sets a minimum age of marriage of 18, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 2011, which obligates states to ensure free and full consent to marriage.

During its 2020 Universal Periodic Review, the CEDAW Committee expressed concern at the rising number of child marriages and adolescent pregnancies. It recommended that a national programme be implemented to prevent adolescent pregnancy through comprehensive age appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health and accessibility to contraception for boys and girls.

During its 2017 review, the CEDAW Committee raised concerns about the high rate of adolescent pregnancies in Nauru and the resulting number of child marriages.

During its 2015 Universal Periodic Review, Nauru supported recommendations to combat child marriage through reinforcing necessary legal frameworks and increasing the legal age of marriage to 18.

Regionally, the Spotlight Pacific Regional Initiative builds on existing commitments across 16 Pacific Island countries, Nauru being one of them.

Que fait le gouvernement pour mettre fin au mariage des enfants ?

Quel est le cadre juridique minimum autour du mariage ?

Under Article 49 of the Child Protection and Welfare Act 2016 prohibits the marriage of girls and boys younger than 18. This applies to both legal and customary marriages.

Rapports

La législation en matière de mariage d’enfants, de mariage précoce ou forcé dans 37 pays d’Asie-Pacifique

1 septembre 2016

This report reviews child marriage laws in 37 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, providing country profiles for each of these countries.

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Sources de données

Gastón, C. M., et al., Child marriage among boys: a global overview of available data,Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies,14:3, p. 219-228, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2019.1566584 (accessed January 2020).
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UN CEDAW, Concluding observations on the combined initial and second periodic reports of Nauru, 2017, p.9, http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/NRU/CO/1-2&Lang=En (accessed January 2020).
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