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- Princess Mabel, the chairman of the Board for Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, has a creative plan to use percentages of wedding spending to end the practice of child marriage.
- What role can you play in addressing child marriage?
- Read about the far-reaching economic impacts of child marriage.
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Child marriage is #Solvable. Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands outlines how we can share a percentage of what we spend on weddings to help end the crisis of child marriage.
Princess Mabel is the chairman of the Board for Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. She is also the co-founder and chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She served as the first director of The Elders, an independent group of eminent world leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela, who promote peace, justice, and human rights. She also founded the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans, worked for the Open Society Foundations, and was involved in the creation of War Child Netherlands.
Read the full article about child marriage at The Rockefeller Foundation.