Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 28
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Noting the negative health effects of early pregnancy and early childbearing, acknowledging the direct health benefit of school attendance for young girls, in the light of the link between years of school attendance and delay in childbirth, including evidence that each additional year of schooling delays the age at which a girl has her first child by approximately six to ten months and that each year of schooling reduces by 14 per cent the likelihood of a girl under 18 having a child, to 23 per cent,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Education
Health
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Youth
Year
2012
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women (2012), PP 28.