“To Protect Her Honour”: Child marriage in emergencies – the fatal confusion between protecting girls and sexual violence

Published by CARE International, this publication is part of the Gender and Protection in Humanitarian Contexts: Critical Issues Series, which is designed to inform and highlight promising practices and/or gaps in programming and to critically analyse work in the field of gender and protection in humanitarian contexts.

This issue examines child and early forced marriage in the context of Syria and what CARE has learned from these experiences. Recommendations are provided for donors and other professionals on how to approach the issue of child marriage from prevention to caregiving.

Read more about CARE’s work to end child marriage here.