Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 9
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Recognizing that child, early and forced marriage is a harmful practice that violates, abuses and impairs human rights and is linked to and perpetuates other harmful practices and human rights violations and that such violations have a disproportionately negative impact on women and girls, and underscoring the human rights obligations and commitments of States to promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls and to prevent and eliminate the practice of child, early and forced marriage,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2015
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage (2015), A/HRC/RES/29/8, PP 9.