Urges Member States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage, where necessary;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Youth
Year
2012
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CPD resolution, Adolescents and youth (2012), OP 8.