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1. Ending child marriage in Bolivia and across the US in Missouri, Oregon, Maine, and Washington, DC. These combined wins will benefit over 441,000 girls who would otherwise be at risk of this human rights violation. We know that girls and adolescents in early unions are more likely to drop or be pulled out of school due to pregnancy and for domestic and unpaid care work, reducing their chances of obtaining financial independence and keeping many trapped in cycles of poverty and abuse. These legal wins will change and may even save lives.
2. Repealing a provision of Kuwait’s Penal Code that had allowed “kidnappers”, including perpetrators of sexual violence, to escape prosecution by marrying their victims. This reform removed a deeply harmful legal provision that protected perpetrators and reinforced stigma, coercion, and injustice for survivors. The change is expected to strengthen legal protections for 1.9 million women and girls in Kuwait.
3. Supporting the ratification of the Maputo Protocol by the Central African Republic, the 46th Member State of the African Union to do so. The Maputo Protocol is one of the most advanced treaties on the protection of women’s and girls’ rights in the world, promising greater protections against sexual and gender-based violence, advanced health and reproductive rights, educational and economic rights, and more for millions of African women and girls, and generations to come. This lays the foundation to give 2.8 million women and girls better legal protections against human rights violations.
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