Deeply concerned about the continued prevalence of child, early and forced marriage worldwide, including the fact that approximately 15 million girls are married every year before they reach 18 years of age and that more than 700 million women and girls alive today were married before their eighteenth birthday,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Child, early and forced marriage (2014), A/RES/69/156, PP 8.