Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 17
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Urges Governments, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to tackle poverty and lack of economic opportunities for women and girls as drivers of child, early and forced marriage, including by ensuring women and girls inheritance and property rights, equal access to social protection, including direct financial support and microcredit for girls, families and guardians to encourage girls to continue their education; to develop livelihood opportunities and life skills education; and to promote women’s equal access to full and productive employment and decent work, as well as equal political participation and rights to inherit, own and control land and productive resources;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Poverty
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Girls
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 17.