JOhn,

Laws matter. When a country’s law allows 14-year-old girls to married they are allowing the human rights of these children to be violated, including the right to be free from sexual violence.

In 1995 governments pledged to remove all sex discriminatory laws. But it’s now 25 years later and gender equality is far from being realized. Laws in countries across the world have a lower minimum age of marriage for girls than boys.

Cuba’s Family Code, for example, provides that girls may be married off as young as 14 years old while requiring a boy to be at least 16 years old.

When young girls are forced to marry, they can face lifelong, harmful consequences. They are essentially subject to state-sanctioned rape and are at risk of increased domestic violence, forced pregnancy, and negative health consequences while being denied education and economic opportunity.

Enough is enough. Call on President Miguel Diaz Canel to turn words into deeds and end child marriage in Cuba.

Take action today.

In Solidarity 

Bryna Subherwal

Advocacy Campaign Manager