Globally, 650 million girls have been affected by child, early and forced marriage (CEFM), while each year, around 12 million girls are married off before the age of 18.Today, one in every five girls is married off before the age of 18. The Asia-Pacific region has alarmingly high levels of child marriage, with the South Asia sub-region having some of the highest rates of CEFM in the world.
Plan International’s research Time To Act: Let’s Go Digital reveals the benefits of using digital technologies in efforts to eliminate CEFM, particularly in terms of reaching a large number of people at once. The research report also offers key information about more than 40 existing digital technologies and applications with a high potential to prevent and end child marriage.
A new report Girl Goals: What has changed for girls? reviews how adolescent girls’ lives have changed in the last 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action was endorsed by 189 governments in 1995.
This year’s State of the World’s Girls Report focuses on the experiences
of young people whose lives are dominated by conflict.
