Shared Roots Different Branches

The Journal of Adolescent Health (JAH) with GreeneWorks and partners launched a research volume highlighting the manifestations of child, early, forced marriage globally. Shared Roots, Different Branches invites activists, practitioners, researchers to reframe child marriage, reconsider what it’ll take to end the harmful practice, and reinforce girls’ and boys’ rights worldwide.


The Child Marriage Research Database

Learn about our systematic scoping database of research on child, early and forced marriage across all geographies published between 2000 and 2022 in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese.



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  • Adolescent girls face lives that are ruled by management of their sexuality, writes Margaret Greene and her colleagues in, The Centrality of Sexuality for Understanding Child, Early, and Forced Marriage  

  • The [USAID] redesign must not be used as a pretext to cut back our engagement or aid; neither should increased effectiveness and efficiency be used as an excuse for slashing resource levels. Rather, the guiding question for redesign efforts should be "How do we do more good work, more efficiently, and more sustainably?" ~ GreeneWorks joined colleagues in a statement to the US Agency for International Development about the Trump Administration's re-design. 
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  •  Watch the films, explore the findings from a global event where we engaged bodies & minds to explore the child marriage - control of girls' sexuality link