Leveraging United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms to end Child Marriage: A step-by-step toolkit for civil society organisations

Toolkit for engaging with four key human rights mechanisms to end child marriage. This toolkit includes explanations for each, how they link with child marriage, and extra resources, tips and timelines to support your advocacy.

This toolkit is a practical companion offering actionable steps and promising practices from Girls Not Brides member organisations around the globe who wish to engage with these UN human rights reporting mechanisms. It is structured into four main sections, one for each key human rights monitoring mechanism:

1. The Committee on the Rights of the Child
2. The Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women
3. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
4. The Universal Periodic Review

It can be viewed as one text, or each chapter can be accessed as a standalone section. It includes all the relevant information to engage with these mechanisms at all stages of the reporting cycle to advance national-level advocacy and press governments to take action to end child marriage and respect, protect and fulfil girls’ rights.