Armed with statistics showing that half
of all girls in some countries are married by the time they reach age 18,
the United Nations Children's Fund calles for a global campaign to
prevent the widespread phenomenon of child marriage.
This call, on the eve of International Women's Day, is part of a new
report released by UNICEF. Entitled "Early Marriage: Child Spouses,"
it discusses why early marriage continues, and may even be on the rise
among extremely poor populations.