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International Day of the Girl Child
11 October

Videos and Web-Stories

Message from UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet to mark the first celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child

Giving Girls a Voice

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of The Elders, founders of Girls Not Brides, and Mary Robinson, The Elders, First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, help give girls a voice.

End Child Marriage with UNFPA

UNICEF- Nigeria, the role of education to prevent child marriage.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira promotes girls' education in India to prevent child marriage and empower girls

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UNICEF’s efforts to prevent child marriages in Pakistan's flood-affected Sindh Province

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India: girls defying their community and refusing early marriage

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A second chance for a would-be child bride in India

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UNICEF helps to begin changing attitudes towards early marriage in Niger

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UNICEF works to convince communities in Pakistan to abandon child marriage

 

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