Annotation:
This document highlights the provisions in international human rights instruments that support the abolition of child marriage. Provisions from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Supplementary Convention on Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the International Labour Organization's Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. [Descriptors: Marriage - International]