From the years 2000 to 2010, more than 210,000 children in the US got married, some as young as 10, and most of them girls marrying men old enough to be convicted of statutory rape.
Child marriage is legal in every state except Delaware and New Jersey. A bill to prevent child marriage in Minnesota passed unanimously in the Minnesota House in 2019 but stalled in the Senate. Join us on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2:00-3:30 for a press conference at the state capitol, 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, St. Paul, MN 55155, in B971, the Press Room.
Loan wedding gowns or long white gowns for high school students to wear to the press conference! Bring the dresses to World Without Genocide, room 189, at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 875 Summit Avenue, St Paul, MN 55105. All will be returned – with thanks and photos!