CARE Applauds Congress for Prioritizing Child Marriage in the Violence Against Women Act
March 13, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 12, 2013) - The poverty-fighting organization CARE thanks Congress for including major provisions to address child marriage globally in the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). In 2010, 67 million girls under the age of 18 were married, and it is estimated that 142 million girls will be married by