Abstract
Child marriage is a menace of the humanity that has been prevailing since pre-historic times and prevails today
in the present modern days of progress and advancement in science, technology and even ethics. Further it
seems that there are no chances that this nuisance be eradicated from the world in near future as it is estimated
that by 2030 at least 150 million girl children will be married before celebrating their18th birthday. The
modern nations have devised laws to combat this trouble and have prescribed multiple types of punishments
who cause or get engaged in child marriages. Along with national legislation, the international Law, mostly
under the umbrella of United Nations, has strictly forbidden the underage marriages but this does not look like
that it will be put to an end in near future. This paper analysis some major human rights instruments at
international level that have been agreed upon the nations of the world.
Mumtaz Ali Khan, Imran Alami, Naveed-ur-Rahman, Sania Bhatti, Muhammad Kashif Ali. (2020) Safeguarding the best interest of the child in global context: International law and the child marriage, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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