End all harmful practices, GBV, SGBV, and Child marriages
Commitment description:Ensuring access for adolescents and youth to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make informed choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, and to be able to transition safely and happily into adulthood and ensuring legal amendments to put an end to child marriages and to grantee respect for eighteen years old as the minimum for marriage, adopt the draft of the child's rights act, activate legal measures for the protection of women and children from GBV and SGBV, and legally protect equality between man and women and complete national efforts to apply all international measures and standards especially ILO convention No. 190 on Violence and harassment in the world of work.
Mode of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationAdvocating for amend personal status laws to put a final and total end to child and forced marriages without any exceptions
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
