Urges States to ensure that efforts to enact and implement legislation to end child and forced marriages engage all stakeholders and agents of change and ensure that the information on the legislation against the practice is well known and generates social support for the enforcement of such laws and legislation;
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
Children
Girls
Year
2011
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2011), A/RES/66/140, OP 19.