Recognizing that early marriage and early childbearing continue to be impediments to improvements in the educational, economic and social status of women in all parts of the world, and that early motherhood can severely curtail their educational and employment opportunities and is likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on the quality of their lives and the lives of their children,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2007
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Forced marriage of the girl child (2007), PP 10.