The United Nations Human Rights Committee took our recommendation and pressed the United States to do what we have been asking it to do: Ban child marriage.
Last month, we told you about the joint submission we co-wrote to the U.N. Human Rights Committee, together with Equality Now and others, calling out the United States for failing to end child marriage.
And the Committee listened. It said that it was “concerned” that marriage under the age of 18 is legal in 40 U.S. states, and it urged the U.S. to prohibit child marriage in all U.S. states. You can find the Committee’s concluding observations here.
Child marriage remains legal in most of the U.S. and continues to happen at an alarming rate – mostly to girls who are married to adult men. We have helped to ban child marriage in 10 U.S. states so far. Only 40 states to go!
Please help us raise $100k in the last 50 days of 2023, so we can continue leading the national movement to end forced and child marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
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