International: Ending child marriage: Does raising minimum age requirements for marriage work? (Opinion)
Toronto Star – June 02, 2021
Marriage before the age of 18 is recognized by the United Nations as a fundamental violation of human rights. Currently, about 12 million of the world’s children get married before they turn 18 and around 82 per cent of them are girls. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even more children are at risk of child marriage. Across the globe, child marriage is highest in sub-Saharan Africa, where 35 per cent of young women get married before the age of 18, followed by South Asia (30 per cent). While the practice is pervasive in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a recent study found that even in Canada over 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018.
Also: Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage: https://bit.ly/3pgO5iA
Also: Child Marriage in Canada: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/padr.12369

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