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CSO Coalition To End Child Marriage

The menace of child marriage has gripped Indian society from time immemorial. Tough our legislature has banned the practice but child marriage still persists in many parts of India. With different consultation at national find out following things and make strategies accordingly:

Assessment of child marriage situation in India- urban, rural and migrant setting
Child marriage aspect of trafficking.
Assessing the marriage registration status in India in urban as well as rural setting
Accessing the availability of hard data and the loop holes in them.

With the Objective to revisit the issue of child marriage from a human rights perspective at the national level by consulting experts from the government and non-government organizations, civil society organizations and other forums so as to make a call for a national action plan on ending child marriage and set a time target to achieve this, CSO Coalition was formed. Nav Srishti also part of this CSO Coalition work at grass root level to reduce child marriages through campaign and meetings with adolescent girls and boys.