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Addressing Data Gaps on Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Humanitarian Settings
One of the reasons why child marriage in humanitarian settings continues to persist is a significant lack of data. The complex and often under-resourced humanitarian environments present a number of barriers to addressing this issue, even as humanitarian
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Interventions to Reduce Forced Marriage
This review drew largely on academic papers as well as reports by international development organisations. Evidence and hence lessons on how to combat forced marriage are limited and sometimes contradictory. Overall, the literature points to a number of a
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Våld mot Kvinnor i Palestina och Möjligheter till Skydd
Prepared by Migrationsverket (Sweden), Lifos in cooperation with Landinfo (Norway), this report outlines the situation for women in Palestine with regards to domestic violence, sexual violence, honor-related violence, and early and forced marriage. Lifos
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Physical Violence and Other Harmful Practices in Humanitarian Situations
With an increasing number of children being affected by emergencies throughout the world iv and considering the pervasiveness of violence, a better understanding of children’s exposure to physical violence and other harmful practices in humanitarian conte
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A Girl No More: The changing norms of child marriage in conflict
Led by the Women’s Refugee Council, this publication presents research begun in 2011 to document factors that promote and mitigate child marriage during conflict and displacement. These findings were used to generate recommendations to reduce the vulnerab
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Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant girls' rights at risk in Sierra Leone
In April 2015, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education, Science and Technology made official government policy an existing ban on visibly pregnant girls attending schools or taking exams. In addition to pregnancy testing practices that humiliate girls, thi
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Unrecognised Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children in Child, Early and Forced Marriage
Child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) can have severe implications for human and social development, with a great risk for the violation of sexual and reproductive rights of underage child brides and mothers. CEFM has significant ramifications for the s
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Impact of Cash and Asset Transfers on Child and Forced Marriage
This rapid review research report examines the impacts of cash and asset transfers on child and forced marriage. It identifies literature on the impacts of cash and asset transfer programmes on child and forced marriage. It attempts to identify key actors
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"I've Never Experienced Happiness": Child Marriage in Malawi
With this report, Human Rights Watch investigates child marriage in Malawi. It describes factors contributing to child marriage, the severe consequences of child marriage, the risks that girls face when they resist these marriages, and the abuses they fre
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No Way Out: Child marriage and human rights abuses in Tanzania
Tanzania’s Marriage Act of 1971 sets the minimum age at 18 for boys and 15 for girls with parental consent. It also allows boys and girls to marriage at age 14 with a court’s approval. Human Rights Watch analyzed the child protection measures available in
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Protecting the Girl Child: Using the law to end child, early and forced marriage and related human rights violations
Child marriage is a human rights violation, often following from and leading to further human rights violations. As detailed in the case studies of this report, it is a violent and abusive practice that stems from and sustains discrimination against women
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Passing the Test- the real cost of being a student
This report examines the research undertaken by a consortium of government and non-government agencies working in Liberian schools, commissioned to research School Related Gender Based Violence. Of the students who responded and took part in the study, ne