UN report: 115 million men and boys were married as children

Published 8 June 2019 in Blog

More than one hundred million boys and men around the world were married as children, according to a landmark United Nations report.

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The study is the UN Children's Fund's first in-depth analysis of child grooms. One in 5 of them, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15.

SABC News discusses the report with James Elder, Chief of Communication for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa, who joins by Skype.