Early marriage: child spouses

Case Studies & Research
Florence
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
2001
28 p.

This issue of Digest focuses on early marriages that take place under the age of 18 - the upper limit for protection under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. It examines the practice in all regions and the harmful impact of early marriage on children and society and offers positive guidelines to end the practice of early marriage.

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