Child Marriage

EDM number 417 in 2017-19, proposed by Virendra Kumar Sharma on 17/10/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Children and families and Marriage.

That this House recognises the great step forward which India has taken in ending child marriage; acknowledges that according to UNICEF in India 47 per cent of women are married before they are 18 years old and 18 per cent by the age of 15, while the age of consent is still 18; notes that child marriage has been used as a loophole to escape rape charges; further recognises that a child should not marry or be forced to marry; and urges the UK Government, and the Department for International Development in particular, to do whatever they can to support India in enforcing the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.