Child Marriage
About the Project
Excerpt from the News Release:
A new interactive guide from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) examines the threat that child marriage poses both to the prosperity and stability of the countries in which it is prevalent and to U.S. development and foreign policy interests.
The “Child Marriage” InfoGuide includes
- a video overview featuring insights fromCFR Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy Rachel B. Vogelstein as well as Isobel Coleman, CFR senior fellow and director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy initiative and the Women and Foreign Policy program; Laura Laski, UN Population Fund chief of sexual and reproductive health; Nice Nailante Leng’ete, an anti–female genital mutilation advocate in the Maasai community; and Donald Steinberg, CEO of World Learning;
- an interactive map that surveys child marriage prevalence and maternal mortality rates;
- profiles of five countries where child marriage is common: India, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Niger, and Guatemala;
- a video examining the varying definitions of who is a child; and
- policy options that could curb the practice of child marriage.
Role
Executive Producer
Published Date
January 2014