Their Time is Now Eliminating Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Asia Integral Technical Report Plan International Asia Regional Office, 2018 Their Time is Now | Eliminating Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Asia 1 Cover photo: © Plan International/Alf Berg For more information, please contact: Plan International Asia Regional Office Raša Sekulović Regional Head of Child Protection and Partnerships
[email protected] 14th Floor, 253 Asoke Building, Sukhumvit 21, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand Tel: +66 2 204 2630-4 Fax: +66 2 204 2629 Designed by: QUO (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Produced by: QUO (Thailand) Co., Ltd. First published by Plan International in 2018 Text, illustrations, design by © Plan International 2018 Acknowledgements This report, including the recommendations and conclusions contained herein, were prepared for Plan International by GreeneWorks. Plan International would like to acknowledge and thank GreeneWorks for the extensive research that they undertook on CEFM in the 14 countries in Asia upon which this summary report is based. www.greeneworks.com Their Time is Now Eliminating Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Asia Plan International Asia Regional Office, 2018 © Plan International ii Their Time is Now | Eliminating Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Asia List of Figures iv List of Tables iv List of Acronyms v 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background on the practice of child marriage 1 1.2 Research methodology 1 1.3 Limitations of this research 2 2. Prevalence and context of child, early and forced marriage in Asia 3 2.1 Comparative rates and numbers 3 2.2 Individual country profiles 9 2.3 A discussion of trends in the region 28 3.