Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 3
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Urges States to enact, enforce, harmonize and uphold laws and policies aimed at preventing and ending child, early and forced marriage, protecting those at risk and supporting already married women and girls, and to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses and that women have equality with men in all matters pertaining to marriage, divorce, child custody and the economic consequences of marriage and its dissolution;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage (2015), A/HRC/RES/29/8, OP 3.