Australian girls continue to be at risk of forced child marriage and female genital mutilation as new figures show keeping girls in education is to key to letting them grow up.
On the International Day of the Girl, a new report shows 50 million child marriages could be avoided in the next 12 years just by letting girls finish secondary school.
A Save the Children report released on Thursday shows while an estimated 25 million child marriages have been prevented over the past decade, no developing country is on track to meet the goal of wiping it out by 2030.
