Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, welcomes the announcement of 27 November as the new UN International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage.
Every year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18 – roughly 23 every minute. Global rates have declined over the past decade, but progress is so slow and uneven that, at current rates, it would take centuries…
17 April 2026
Girls Not Brides and Girls First Fund announce new research with Publish What You Fund to better understand the international funding landscape to end child marriage.
Legislation passed by parliament removes all parental-consent provisions and special licences that previously enabled 16 and 17-year-olds to get married.
Key outcomes of the Regional Consultative Convening on Collective Influencing to Address Child Marriage.
1 September 2025 – Burkina Faso has adopted the bill for the new Personal and Family Code (CPF), changing the minimum legal age for marriage to 18 years old for both girls and boys. Previously, the minimum age of marriage…
The legislative change closes a loophole that allowed 16 and 17-year-olds to marry with parental or guardian consent.
Girls Not Brides remembers a 'hero on ending child marriages', who changed the lives of thousands of girls in Malawi.
A regional call to action to advance gender transformative education and end child marriage in Francophone West Africa. Adopted at the Education Out Loud (EOL) Regional Convening - Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire 2025.