Materialien zu Forced Marriage

International Conventions Relating to Forced Marriage and Child Marriage

Council of Europe, Committee on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, Doc 10590, Report, 20.07.2005, Forced Marriages and Child Marriages

Council of Europe, Resolution 1468 (2005), Forced Marriages and Child Marriages

Council of Europe, Recommendation 1723 (2005), Forced Marriages and Child Marriages

UN Resolution 843 (IX) Status of Women in Private Law: customs, ancient laws and practices affecting the human dignity of women (1954)

UN Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (1962); Ratifications and Reservations

UN Recommendation on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (1965)

UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1957)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)

UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)

UNHCR Fact Sheet No. 23, Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (1995)

UN Resolution 52/99 Traditional or Customary Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Girls (1997)

UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime ("Trafficking Protocol 2000, not in force)

African Charter on the Rights and of the Welfare of the Child (1990); Ratifications and Reservations

Other relevant Conventions and Declarations

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (1981)

Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992)

Council of Europe, Committee on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, Doc 10670, 06.09.2005, Report, Women and Religion in Europe

Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Resolution 1464 (2005), Women and Religion in Europe

Reports and other material

Zentrum polis - Politik lernen in der Schule, Zwangsheirat

The Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls, Early Marriage: Sexual Exploitation & the Human Rights of Girls (2001)

- Early Marriage: Whose Right to Choose? (2002)

UNICEF, Child Protection Information Sheet - Child Marriage

United Nations Children Fund, Innocenti Research Centre, Early Marriage. Child Spouses

United Kingdom

- Forced Marriage Unit

- UK Forced Marriage Civil Protection Act

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Bielefeldt, Heiner, Zwangsheirat und multikulturelle Gesellschaft. Anmerkungen zur aktuellen Debatte

Die Zeit Online, Streit um Zwangsheirat