Child marriage
Child marriage affects millions of girls worldwide. The Elders are bringing together organisations working locally, nationally and internationally to build a global partnership to end this harmful practice.
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Day of the Girl: giving girls a voice
“Every three seconds, another girl becomes a child bride.”
11 October marks the first ever International Day of the Girl Child: a chance to amplify the voice of millions of girls everywhere being married off before the age of 18. Join Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu in celebrating Day of the Girl. Help us end child marriage.
Building an alliance to end child marriage
Every year, 10 million girls worldwide are married under the age of 18. In June 2011, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu travelled to Ethiopia to visit projects that are successfully educating families and communities about the harmfulness of early marriage.