'I've Never Experienced Happiness' - Child Marriage in Malawi

Publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Publication Date:
10 March 2014
Tags:
Malawi

This 69-page report documents how child marriage prevents girls and women from participating in all spheres of life. The practice violates the rights to health, to education, to be free from physical, mental, and sexual violence, and to marry only when able and willing to give free and full consent.

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