This article explores child marriage and the international conventions that are violated by the practice (CEDAW, CRC, Marriage Convention, UDHR, ICCPR, ICSCR, Torture Convention, Anti-Trafficking Convention). The prevalence of and reasoning behind child marriage throughout the world is described, as well as a presentation of different nations' domestic laws concerning minimum age of marriage. The author outlines the international human rights instruments that relate to child marriage, explaining how existing human and women's rights conventions fail to remedy the problem.