Children: Government Resources: Library Guide: International

United Nations. Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (1962)

Africa Child Policy Forum. Provisions of International and Regional Instruments Relevant to Protection from Child Marriage

E.Calimoutou, Y.Liu, B.Mbu, Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage. Washington DC: World Bank, September 2016.

UNICEF. Innocenti Research Centre. Early marriages, child spouses. Innocenti digest, No. 7 (March 2001)

UNFPA's action for adolescent girls: building the health, economic and social assets of adolescent girls, especially those at risk of child marriage: programme document, July 25, 2014

UNICEF. Division of Policy and Planning (2008). Child marriage and the law. (Legislative reform initiative paper series)

UNFPA. Marrying too young: end child marriage (2012)

UNFPA. Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy (State of world population 2013)

UNICEF Statistics

UNFPA. Child marriage

UNICEF. Child marriage

Child marriages: 39 000 every day. Joint news release Every Woman Every Child/Girls Not Brides/PMNCH/United Nations Foundation/UNFPA/UNICEF/UN Women/WHO/World Vision/World YWCA, 7 March 2013