2. The devastating impact of child marriage
Health: Five times more likely to die in childbirth
Education: Schooling often ends with marriage
Human rights violation

3. Why does child marriage happen?
Tradition
Gender roles
Poverty
Security

4. Why act to end child marriage now?
Large scale; little action
25,000 girls every day
10 million girls/year
Direct impact on development goals
Lost potential of millions of girls

5. What are the solutions?
Empowering girls with information, skills, and support networks
Educating and mobilising parents and community members
Enhancing the accessibility and quality of formal schooling for girls
Offering economic support and incentives for girls and their families
Fostering an enabling legal and policy framework

6. Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
Our members are working in partnership to:
Raise awareness about the impact and solutions
Empower those seeking to end child marriage
Call for global action
Give girls a voice

7. What action can be taken by the UN human rights machinery?
Recognise child marriage as a cross-cutting human rights issue
Implement the recommendations of treaty monitoring bodies
Encourage UN special rapporteurs to report on child marriage
Highlight child marriage in the Universal Periodic Review

8. ‘Let girls be girls, not brides’