Editing Child marriage (section)

==== Malawi ====
In 2015, [[Malawi]] passed a law banning child marriage, which raises the minimum age for marriage to 18.<ref>{{cite news |last=Batha |first=Emma |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malawi-childmarriage-law-idUSKBN0LK1Z020150217 |title=Malawi bans child marriage, lifts minimum age to 18 |work=Reuters|date=9 February 2009 |access-date=2015-02-18 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018234916/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/17/us-malawi-childmarriage-law-idUSKBN0LK1Z020150217 |url-status=live }}</ref> This major accomplishment came following years of effort by the Girls Empowerment Network campaign, which ultimately led to tribal and traditional leaders banning the cultural practice of child marriage.<ref>{{cite web |title=United Nations General Assembly. Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Preventing and eliminating child, early and forced marriage |url=https://www.unodc.org/res/e4j/data/_university_uni_/preventing_and_eliminating_child_early_and_forced_marriage_html/english.pdf}}</ref>