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Child marriage is a global problem that affect millions of children, mostly girls, across the world. Child marriage has numerous adverse effects on the overall well-being of children who are mentally, psychologically, emotionally and physical unfit for married life. It constitutes a violation of child rights and must be abolished. It deprives those involved of education and health services, the chance to learn skills and to develop their personalities.

Since girls are more likely to marry young than boys, and illiterate girls are significantly more at risk of child marriage; Save the Children works with gender transformative programmes that are focused to enroll and retain girls in schools.

Ending child marriage requires the joint effort of all organisations from community level to national and global level. Save the Children works in networks and in collaboration with different stakeholders and sees child marriage as a crosscutting issue that should be mainstreamed into all development work. A reduction in child marriage, FGM and sexual violence will reduce the levels of maternal and infant mortality due to under-age pregnancies and unsafe pregnancies and delivery.

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  1. Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

    The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Melin, Mie | Terlonge, Pernille

  2. Working Together to End Child Marriage: How governments can end child marriage by accelerating coordinated action across education, health, protection, and other sectors

    Child marriage is an extreme violation of children’s rights and a serious form of child abuse. It robs girls of their agency, their childhood, their wellbeing, and their potential. Being married too young forces girls into physical and emotional relations

    Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children UK

  3. Toward an End to Child Marriage: Lessons from research and practice in development and humanitarian sectors

    While child marriage has been on the decline recent decades, there is a growing concern for its increased prevalence in crisis situations during conflict and natural disasters. The more typical underlying factors such as gender inequality and social norms

    Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Freccero, Julie | Whiting, Audrey

  4. Ending Violence in Childhood: Global Report 2017

    This report makes a case for ending the wide-ranging violence against children occurring across the world. It is a publication from an independent global learning initiative, Know Violence in Childhood. The project, like the Violence Against Children Stud

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Know Violence in Childhood

  5. Child Marriage in Niger

    ‘Child marriage’ refers to a formal or informal union in which at least one of the parties is under 18 years of age. This harmful practice affects Niger more than anywhere in the world, and the rate varies considerably between regions. Despite the efforts

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Concern Worldwide | CTB Niger | ...

  6. Prohibiting all Corporal Punishment of Children: Answers to frequently asked questions

    This is one of three booklets produced by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment with support from Save the Children Sweden. These booklets should give parents and carers, government officials, education professionals and others the confiden

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

  7. Prohibiting Corporal Punishment in Schools: Answers to frequently asked questions

    This is one of three booklets produced by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment with support from Save the Children Sweden. These booklets should give parents and carers, government officials, education professionals and others the confiden

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

  8. Stop Hitting! Banning all Corporal Punishment of Children: Questions and answers for children and young people

    This is one of three booklets produced by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment with support from Save the Children Sweden. These booklets should give parents and carers, government officials, education professionals and others the confiden

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

  9. Invisible Wounds: The impact of six years of war on the mental health of Syria's children

    For the past six years, children in Syria have been bombed and starved. They have seen their friends and families die before their eyes or buried under the rubble of their homes. They have watched their schools and hospitals destroyed, been denied food, m

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children UK Author(s): McDonald, Alun

  10. Family Honour and Shattered Dreams: Girl Brides in Mali, Niger and Senegal

    Despite having the highest rates of child marriage worldwide, West Africa is severely underrepresented in qualitative studies about child marriage practices. Hence, few evidence-based solutions exist to address the persistent practice in the region. This 

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Plan International in West Africa and Central Africa Author(s): Morgan, Jenny

  11. School Violence and Bullying: Global status report

    This report focuses on violence and bullying in formal educational settings, in particular violence and bullying between students, and on actions that can be taken by the education sector and schools to prevent and respond to the problem. It aims to: Pres

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  12. Our children, we will resist child abuse

    Child abuse in Bangladesh is alarming, government should prioritize child safety. Save the Children has been working to ensure children security and resist child abuse.

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Bangladesh

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