Accountability, Political Will Needed To End Child Marriage, Improve Equality, Health Access Among Adolescent Girls, Women

Devex: Accountability needed to end child marriage, improve health access
“Three African heads of state have warned their peers that without accountability and political intervention, the problem of child marriage is set to worsen, posing a severe developmental threat to much of the world. … Across the street, meanwhile, U.N. officials and ministers made a similar plea for adolescent girls and women, with the release of a new U.N. report that calls for greater transformative accountability for young women…” (Lieberman, 9/19).

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