Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and subregional organizations, within their respective mandates, civil society and other relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to collaborate with Member States in developing and implementing strategies and policies at the national, regional and international levels to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, as well as to support those who were married as girls and boys;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
Boys
Children
Girls
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Child, early and forced marriage (2016), A/RES/71/175, OP 15.