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Child marriage: a moment of unprecedented attention

"It's a moment of unprecedented attention for child marriage around the world."

Those words come from a 2016 Human Rights Watch report. It estimated that one in three girls in the developing world marries before the age of 18.

The issue has slowly moved to the top of the global development agenda. The United Nations has set the goal of ending child marriage by 2030.