End Child Marriage

Zonta Advocates to End Child Marriage

Internationally and in the USA

Child marriage directly hinders eight of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. While the prevalence of child marriage is declining, efforts to address this human rights violation must be significantly scaled up. At this rate, it would take another 50 years to eliminate child marriage worldwide.

Zonta International has partnered with UNICEF USA and UNFPA to support the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage , which is working to achieve lasting change on a significant scale by tackling the human rights violation in a dozen of the most high-prevalence or high-burden countries.

Zonta Says NO! End Child Marriage

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With Unchained at Last

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REsources for Messaging End Child Marriage www.zontasaysno.com

Facts about Violence Against Women pdf

Open and download full list of violence against women facts:

Click on the ZontaSaysNO link above to get infographics like these, highlighting facts about why we must say NO to child marriage.

Legal summary of arguments for and against Ending Child Marriage

UCLA Law Review

Why Has the United States Not Banned Child Marriage?

Journal of Adolescent Health – Dec. 2021

A tremendous new resource for clubs looking at the issue of Child Marriage, both in the US and worldwide.

The Diversity and Complexity of Child Marriage

This supplement was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The articles have been peer-reviewed and edited by the editorial staff of the Journal of Adolescent Health. The opinions or views expressed in this supplement are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the funder.

Edited by Ronald Olum, Eunice Muthengi, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli

Volume 69, Issue 6, Supplement,

Download all articles (PDF) : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0jpvjlt75t9zr5m/AABAguRqMJz_Ndrt17uQTqBta?dl=0

Commentary: Fraidy Reiss Unchained at Last

Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications

Fraidy Reiss*Unchained At Last, Westfield, New Jersey

While Americanforeignpolicy deems childmarriage a “humanrights abuse” and calls on other countries to eliminate it [1], manyAmericans remain unaware of the prevalence of child marriage in their own country [2]. One possible explanation for this lack ofawareness is that previous studies of American child marriagehave been stymied by inadequate recordkeeping… Link to full article:

Article: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8eja4oea2zy7p9/Child-Marriage-in-the-United-States–Prevalence-a_2021_Journal-of-Adolescent.pdf?dl=0

List of Journal Articles: (available for download as PDF’s from Zonta USA Caucus’s dropbox)

Download Articles - Zonta USA Caucus dropbox

List of Articles on Child Marriage in the Journal of Adolescent Health

Ending Child Marriage in the USA

Pediatrics on Child Marriage

Child Marriage in the United States and Its Association With Mental Health in Women WHAT’S KNOWN [...]

04
Apr

Marriage Age 18, No Exceptions

We’ve been asked why Zonta USA Caucus is standing behind Age 18, No Exceptions. [...]

01
Feb

Why Age 18, no exceptions- Unchained At Last

Opposition to Emancipated Minors Authorization to Marry – Unchained At Last We urge you to [...]

30
Jan

Journal of Adolescent Health- Special Issue on Child Marriage

A tremendous new resource for clubs looking at the issue of Child Marriage, both in [...]

26
Nov

Zonta Joins Massachusetts Hearing to End Child Marriage

The MA hearing on H1709 & S937 (Bills to end child marriage) and a few other [...]

16
Nov

Bill to End Child Marriage in Massachusetts is before Legislature

Did you know children can legally marry in #Massachusetts? In fact, with parental consent and [...]

09
Nov

Zonta International Advocacy Webinars

Learn more about The Advocacy Series: A series of video webinars about key advocacy areas [...]

15
Oct

Fort Collins Colorado, End Child Marriage Billboard

Oct 2021- The Colorado North Forty Club sponsored this #EndChildMarriage billboard. Zonta Club of Colorado [...]

11
Oct

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A Different Path

Unchained at last

America child’s marriage problem. It happens here, or American girls are sent out of the country to marry” Forced and child marriage seem like problems that don’t exist in America, but in reality marriage under the age of 18 is legal in all 50 states. After escaping her own forced marriage, activist Fraidy Reiss is working to help women and girls close the legal loopholes around these marriages for good. (10 Min)

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