Hemispheric Report on Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Unions in the States Party to the Belém do Pará Convention
Hemispheric Report on Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Unions in the States Party to the Belém do Pará Convention
Overview
Child, early and forced marriage and unions represent a severe human rights problem that affects millions of younger girls and adolescents around the world. It is related to contexts of precariousness, abuse, and suffering that extend throughout their lives, their daughters’, and sons’.
This MESECVI hemispheric report explores the causes that fuel and reinforce the phenomenon of CEFMUs in Latin America and the Caribbean, an issue historically forgotten and normalized in the region and still allowed by certain laws rendering it invisible and lacking attention from the States.