Resource centre
Find here reports, policy briefs and factsheets about child marriage, as well as capacity-building tools for organisations and individuals working to end child marriage.
Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is not responsible for content hosted on third party websites.
Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries
Policy brief related to WHO report: ‘Preventing Early Pregnancy and Poor Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Adolescents in Developing Countries’. Stresses the close link between child marriage and adolescent pregnancy.
Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence against Women
Developed by UN Women and SAY NO UNiTE, this Handbook brings together current knowledge on effective policy for the prevention of, and response to, violence against women, and concretely demonstrates…
Les droits sexuels et l’Examen Périodique Universel: Une trousse à outils pour les militants
Développé par la Fédération Internationale pour la Planification Familiale (IPPF) et l’Initiative pour les Droits Sexuels (SRI), cette trousse à outils vous aidera à mettre en lumière au plan international…
Entre nous, the European magazine for sexual and reproductive health: child marriage
28 page magazine containing the following articles:
Sexual rights & the universal periodic review: a toolkit for advocates
This toolkit explains how civil society can engage with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process to hold governments to account on sexual and reproductive rights.
The effect of reproductive health communication interventions on age at marriage and first birth in rural Bihar, India: A retrospective study
This paper analyses an education project aimed at increasing the age of marriage and first birth in rural Bihar, India using community-based communication programmes.
Preventing child marriages: First international day of the girl child 'my life, my right, end child marriage'
In 2012, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 11 October as the day of the girl child with child marriage as the first ever theme.
Progress for children: A report card on adolescents
Notes that early marriage frequently leads to early childbirth – the leading cause of death for adolescent girls in Africa. Provides graphs depicting population trends and child marriage, spousal violence…
No place for children: child recruitment, forced marriage and attacks on schools
Details unlawful recruitment and other laws-of-war violations against children, including forced and early marriage, by all parties to the conflict in Somalia since 2010.
Learning from cases of girls’ rights
Equality Now established the Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund to support and publicise legal cases that address the most common and significant human rights abuses of adolescent girls. The report…
A childhood lost: a report on child marriage in the UK and the developing world
Examines child marriage in the UK and in the developing world. Urges the UK government to take urgent action in the UK and abroad to protect girls from being married…
How come you allow little girls to get married?' Child marriage in Yemen
Documents the causes and consequences of child marriage in Yemen, international legal obligations on child marriage and makes recommendations to bring about change. The report is based on field research…