CHRI fact sheet shows Iran is the world leader in executions of juvenile offenders; at least 7 were executed in 2018 and over 90 are currently on death row
Niger has one of the highest known child marriage rates in the world, with three out of four girls in this West African country married before age 18
Twelve years’ education is mandatory in Armenia, but for young Yazidi girls, it continues to be a dream. Many of them are forced to get married at the age of 15 or 16, once they’re considered “tall enough.”
Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found some 78,000 American children between the ages of 15 and 17 are or have recently been married
In rural Malawi, families send girls as young as 12 years old for “initiation,” a traditional, cultural practice that marks a child’s entry into adulthood