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

REsources for Messaging End Child Marriage www.zontasaysno.com

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Ending Child Marriage in the USA

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

NY State Ends Child Marriage

New York is sixth state to ban child marriage New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation [...]

29
Jul

Why do Legislators continue to support Child Marriage despite Public Outcry?

"Yet at least one of the bill’s sponsors in the State Senate supported an amendment [...]

16
Jun

Bill asks: How many children marry in California?

Zonta Club of Newport Harbor works to End Child Marriage in California. Great PR mention [...]

10
May

Statutory Rape and Child Marriage Tahirih Policy Brief

Child Marriage as a defense to Rape or Sex Offenses still stands in 40 states:

Tahirih Justice Center: The Alarming Disconnect Between Age-Based Sex Offenses and Minimum Marriage Age. Many [...]

23
Apr

Unchained at Last publishes updated data on Child Marriage in the USA

Unchained At Last: New Study Findings 2021 “The United States has a child marriage problem [...]

14
Apr

Registration Open for North America Inter-District Meeting

Challenges and Opportunities for Zonta’s Second Century Get involved: Great Sessions on USA Advocacy, Ending [...]

21
Mar

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)