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115 million boys and men around the world married as children: UNICEF

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Adolescents in Nepal perform a drama about child marriage as part of a global programme to help educate and end child marriage. Source: UNICEF/UN0302727/Panday

An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15.


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An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15.


Jolanda Pupillo has interviewed Lucio Valerio Sarandrea, spokesperson for UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan.

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