2. Child, Not Bride: Ending Child Marriage
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3. Child Marriage Definitions, Conventions
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 2004
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age
for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages, 1964
Convention on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women, 1979
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1990
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

4. US 10% Global Child Marriage Around the world: 700,000,000 Germany 1%.
Around the world: 700,000,000
Germany 1%
France 2%
US 10%
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

5. Rates, Girls and Boys Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

6. Reinforce social, religious, or cultural ties Provide protection
Why Child Marriage?
Escape poverty
Reinforce social, religious, or cultural ties
Provide protection
Eliminate charges of abuse, statutory rape
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

7. Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

8. Child Marriage Rates by State.
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

9. Youngest Legally Able to Marry.
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

10. Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

11. Number of Child Marriages by State.
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

12. victims of statutory rape if the spouse is an adult
Child Marriage and Well-Being
Girls who marry as children are
3 times more likely to be beaten by their spouses
31% more likely to live in poverty
50% more likely to drop out of high school
4 times less likely to graduate from college
23% more likely to have a heart attack, diabetes,
cancer, or stroke
more likely to have psychiatric disorders
50% more likely to be divorced
victims of statutory rape if the spouse is an adult
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

13. Children cannot Get a divorce Rent an apartment Buy or rent a car
Get health care or check into a hospital
Open a bank account
Have access to an inheritance
Get a credit card
Stay at a battered women’s shelter
A married child cannot be independent and
cannot help herself or her children.
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

14. States Prohibiting Child Marriage
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

15. US Child Marriage Policy
The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, March 2016, State Department:
A key goal is reducing child marriage.
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

16. Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

17. Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

18. Ending child marriage helps break the
intergenerational cycle of poverty.
Empowered girls can better care for
their families, leading to
smaller, healthier families.
When girls are allowed to be girls,
everyone wins.
-UNICEF
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.

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Rwanda is a small landlocked country. The fact that it’s landlocked limits economic opportunity and development.