By: Claudia Barney, Staff Reporter

This morning the Human Rights Council (HRC) voted to pass HRC/II/I, on the topic of the consequences of child, early and forced marriage, by consensus. The Resolution encourages Member States to evaluate relevant policies and potentially implement national strategy to eliminate child marriage, and establishes a yearly press release to publish statistics on the contributions of women in the workforce in cooperation with both the Human Rights Council and the International Labor Organization.

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