SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 73
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- Developed by the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum, the Model Law has the potential to inform action to end child marriage. This is an area where incremental progress is being achieved, for example with recent legislative developments in the Gambia and the United Republic of Tanzania. In 2015, Malawi adopted the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, which raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 years. The social mobilization around that process and the important partnership developed with traditional leaders helped to raise awareness of the new law and achieve important results, including a landmark initiative led by a female traditional chief that resulted in the initial annulment of 330 child marriages in a single district and since then has broken up 850 child marriages and banned the sexual initiation of girls.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 73
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