Recognizing that early childbearing continues to be an impediment to the improvement of the educational and social status of girls in all parts of the world and that, overall, child and forced marriages and early motherhood can severely curtail their educational opportunities and are likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on their employment opportunities and on their and their children's quality of life,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Education
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Year
2009
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2009), A/RES/64/145, PP 25.