This is the economic cost of child marriage
Countries could save billions in welfare payments by ending the practice.
A global advocate for freedom, justice and development for over two decades, Mabel van Oranje is the initiator and chair of ‘Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage’. She is also co-founder and the executive chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the (advisory) boards of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Crisis Action, Global Witness, the Malala Fund, the Open Society Foundations and The Elders.
Countries could save billions in welfare payments by ending the practice.
Mabel van Oranje, Board Chair of Girls Not Brides, on ending child marriage.
Jo Cox was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Here, two of her YGL colleagues remember her.