Worldwide, the number of child marriages is declining, but at a very slow pace to hope that the practice will be eradicated this century, such a statement has been made. UNICEF .
The agency confirms the reduction of such marriages in a new report. However, the authors of the article pointed out that this lags far behind the sustainable development goal of freeing the world from child marriage by 2030.
“The good news is that the number of child marriages around the world is declining,” said the report’s lead author. Claudia Cappa.
“The rate of child marriages has decreased from 23 percent to 19 percent in the last 10 years. But that’s not enough to meet the goal of ending child marriage by 2030, with more than 12 million girls under the age of 18 marrying each year. So, if nothing changes, it will take us about 300 more years to completely eliminate it,” Kappa concluded.
The UN estimates that 640 million girls and women alive today marry before the age of 18, and about 12 million girls become brides each year.
“Child marriage has different causes in different places, but for girls there are often commonalities about poverty and disability,” Kappa said. “Gender inequality, stereotypes, weak laws and fear of pregnancy outside of wedlock also contribute to this,” the report’s author added.
Formerly Germany’s supreme court decided Change the law banning child marriage.