Building a Global Movement to Respond to Child Marriage

Abstract

As current and former regional coordinators of Girls Not Brides, we have supported and mobilized civil society organizations and advocacy for the global movement to end child marriage. Each of us has worked in one specific region of the world—Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, or Asia—and we have been struck by the hopefulness of progressive regional tools to end child marriage. In Africa, the Member States of the African Union adopted the Maputo Protocol in 2003 as a framework to hold African governments to account on the violation of women's and girls' rights [1].