Girls Not Brides

1.6 million girls are better protected from child marriage today than they were a year ago.

⚖️ 2 new national laws: Burkina Faso raised the minimum age of marriage to 18, and Colombia passed its Son Niñas, No Esposas bill banning child marriage and early unions, together protecting 580,000 girls a year.
 
📋 2 national strategies: Nepal endorsed a new strategy to end child marriage, and Nigeria adopted a costed plan to deliver on its own leading to the protection of a further 997,000 girls a year.
 
🤝 A new framework in Kenya, shaped with our member coalition, will protect 84,000 more girls each year once it’s implemented.
 
Together, that’s 1.6 million girls better protected, every single year.
But policy change is only part of the story.
 
✍️ 10 leading funders and governments committed to greater collaboration.
📣 12 governments championed ending child marriage in international spaces. 
 
From national policy change to increased investment and global leadership, this is what collective action makes possible.

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