Child, Early and Forced Marriages and Unions in Latin America

EADI Gender Justice Working Group members, Catalina Domínguez and Evangelina Martich presented their policy brief on child marriage and early unions in Latin America at an EADI Virtual Dialogue, within the EADI Gender Justice Working Group, on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl.

Thank you to José-Roberto Luna Manzanero for moderating, and to everyone who joined.

Three takeaways for anyone designing policy or programs on child protection in the region:

01 — Legal bans are necessary, but they do not reach informal unions, which are the majority.
02 — Prevention has to include adult men, families and communities in these unions and society as a whole, not only the girls.
03 — Health, education and justice need protocols to detect early unions and treat them as gender-based violence.

The full brief, in Spanish, is linked below.

Matrimonios Infantiles y Uniones Tempranas en América Latina

🎥 Watch the recording below.