Forced Marriage of the Girl Child. Report of the Secretary-General
- Document number
- 1468
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Forced Marriage of the Girl Child. Report of the Secretary-General
- Author/publisher
- Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), United Nations (UN)
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-second session, 25 February-7 March 2008, E/CN.6/2008/4,
- Summary
- Pursuant to resolution 51/3 of the Commission on the Status of Women, the present report gives an overview of the consideration of the issue of forced marriage at the international level, and the evolving approach for addressing it. It provides information on the legal and policy measures of States and the activities undertaken by entities of the United Nations system to address forced marriage of the girl child. The report concludes with recommendations for future action.The issue of forced marriage was first introduced into the agenda of theGeneral Assembly in 1995, in the context of trafficking (see Assembly resolution50/167), and was subsequently taken up from the same perspective by theCommission on the Status of Women in 1997 (resolution 41/5) and the Commissionon Human Rights in 1999 and subsequent years (resolutions 1999/40, 2000/44,2001/48, 2002/51 and 2004/45). In these contexts, Governments focused on theneed to address the root factors that encouraged trafficking in women and girls,including for the purpose of forced marriage.Since 2000, forced marriage has been considered a form of violence againstwomen and dealt with in the framework of the elimination of violence againstwomen. The Commission on the Status of Women addressed the need to reachgirls in forced marriages with educational and life-skills programmes (agreedconclusions of 2007 on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violenceagainst the girl child) (see E/2007/27, chap. I, sect. A).
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