Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 15
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Deeply concerned also that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation and that 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year, and expressing further concern that more than 720 million women alive today were married before their eighteenth birthday and that more than one in three (about 250 million) entered into such a union before the age of 15, and that, although boys are affected, child, early and forced marriage disproportionately affects girls,
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
Boys
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2017
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), A/HRC/RES/34/16, PP 15.