Child, Early and Forced Marriage

A/HRC/RES/62/19View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2026.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 2014–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/62/19	Child, early and forced marriage	3,553	14%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/158	Child, early and forced marriage	7,985	80%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/202	Child, early and forced marriage	6,772	58%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/167	Child, early and forced marriage	5,233	78%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/153	Child, early and forced marriage	4,210	45%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2016–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/338	Issue of child, early and forced marriage report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/158
2024	A/79/308	Issue of child, early and forced marriage report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/202
2022	A/77/282	Issue of child, early and forced marriage report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/167
2020	A/75/262	Issue of child, early and forced marriage report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/153
2018	A/73/257	Report of the Secretary-General on the issue of child, early and forced marriage	A/RES/71/175

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Accountability Crime Prevention Early Marriage Forced Marriage Gender Equality Gender-Based Violence Girls Guidelines Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Urges States to promote, respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all women and girls, particularly those subjected to child, early and forced marriage, and to prevent and eliminate all forms all violence, including sexual and gender-based violence; to ensure, inter alia, the right to education and the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including the right to sexual and reproductive health, to promote equality in all aspects of marriage and its dissolution, and to guarantee equal access for every girl and woman to inclusive and equitable quality education;

Calls upon States to take a comprehensive, human rights-based, age-, gender- and disability-responsive, survivor- and victim-centred and multisectoral approach, in consultation with, and with the full, equal, meaningful and inclusive participation and leadership of, women and girls, including in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of laws, policies and programmes to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, in particular those who are hardest to reach and those who have been subjected to child, early and forced marriage and are already married, divorced, separated or widowed, and with all relevant stakeholders, that takes into account linkages with other harmful practices in the prevention of and response to child, early and forced marriage, and to pay particular attention to the specific needs of all women and girls;

Encourages States to implement comprehensive, human rights-based, gender-responsive and multisectoral measures to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage by taking into account the guidelines of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and its operational recommendations, including by:

Ensuring a national legal framework in line with international human rights standards, including regarding the age of majority and the legal age for marriage, protective of the rights of adolescent girls and boys, guided by the best interests of the child and the right of the child to be heard, prohibiting forced marriage and requiring birth and marriage registration and by ensuring that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses;

Establishing comprehensive and coordinated national approaches, including policies, protection measures, formal referral pathways, strategies and actions, with clearly defined roles and responsibilities among relevant sectors, including justice, education, health, social protection and gender equality mechanisms, that are firmly anchored in human rights norms and principles, with the aim of safeguarding the best interests of the child and advancing gender equality;

Addressing the root causes of child, early and forced marriage by tackling structural, institutional, multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities that limit women’s and girls’ access to education, economic opportunities, economic support and social protection measures, healthcare services, sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and decision-making, including social protection schemes, livelihood support for families, and economic empowerment programmes for adolescents and girls, and by implementing human rights-based, gender-responsive and community-based interventions to address patriarchal social and cultural norms, gender stereotypes, the socioeconomic drivers of violence, unequal power relations, discriminatory social norms and discriminatory practices that perpetuate inequalities, limit women’s and girls’ autonomy and decision-making, and normalize child, early and forced marriage;

Ensuring access to justice and effective remedies for victims and survivors of child, early or forced marriage, as well as timely, high-quality, accessible, confidential and trauma-informed support services, including housing, healthcare, income support and psychological and legal services, and ensuring that such services are gender- and child-responsive, adequately resourced and available to survivors and to women and girls at risk of child, early or forced marriage;

Adopting a human rights-based approach to the regular collection, analysis, dissemination and use of quantitative and qualitative data on child, early and forced marriage, ensuring participation, self-identification, transparency, privacy, confidentiality and informed consent, and disaggregated by sex, age, disability, ethnicity, geographical location, Indigenous origins and identity, migratory status, socioeconomic status, education level and other key relevant factors, to monitor progress and ensure accountability;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in collaboration with relevant entities of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, within their respective mandates, to support governments, civil society and other relevant stakeholders in the implementation of the Office’s guidelines, to prevent and redress child, early and forced marriage, through technical cooperation workshops, by the sixty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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