PARTICULAR ASPECTS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON CONSENT TO MARRIAGE, MINIMUM AGE FOR MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES IN STATES PARTIES
PARTICULAR ASPECTS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON CONSENT TO MARRIAGE, MINIMUM AGE FOR MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES IN STATES PARTIES

Summary/Abstract: Marriages between minors, early marriages and forced marriages have been and continue to be a serious violation of human rights, in general and of the rights of minors, in particular. It is a violation of the right to freely express one’s consent, on the one hand, and of the right to physical integrity and mental health, on the other. Failing to comply with these rights results in the violation of other rights such as the right to education. These were sufficient reasons for the international society to understand in 1962 the need to regulate, by an international legal instrument, the consent to marriage, the minimum age for marriage and the registration of marriages. The Convention entered into force in 1964, but once the consent expressed, the States customized its application at national level, through reservations and declarations.

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