Despite attempts by India’s officials and authorities to outlaw child marriage and relations with child brides, child marriage still goes on. India’s efforts to decrease rates of child marriage have had only little effect. If we don’t hurry to bring down adolescent marriage, the impact could have drastic effect by 2050. The majority of young girls who are married are under the age of 15, the main reason being having a weak economic status. This website aims to help raise money to help prevent more marriages like this from happening and secure a girl’s chance of living a happy life.

Statistics

Almost half of all child brides worldwide live in South Asia;
1 in 3 are in India

Percentage distribution of women aged 18 years and older who were married or in union before age 18 by region from a survey taken in 2013

The 10 Countries with the Highest Rates of Child Marriage

Percentage of women aged 20 to 49 years who were married or in union before ages 15 and 18, in the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage

The dark red = "Girls married before the age of 15"
The light red = "Girls married after the age of 15 but before the age of 18"
Videos

In February 2016, the Girls Not Brides team headed out to Zambia to film “We are Girls, Not Brides”, a two-minute music video about ending child marriage. The song was written, composed and sung by a group of talented young girls from Lusaka Girls School, who take part in a girls’ empowerment club run by Girls Not Brides member Continuity Zambia.

Photographer Stephanie Sinclair and writer Cynthia Gorney investigate the world of prearranged child marriage, where girls as young as five are forced to wed.

Statistics

Almost half of all child brides worldwide live in South Asia; 1 in 3 are in India

The 10 Countries with the Highest Rates of Child Marriage

Videos

Almost half of all child brides worldwide live in South Asia;
1 in 3 are in India