Princess Mabel of Orange launches VOW to end child marriage
17th October 2018
Twelve million girls a year are forced to marry before the age of 18. That’s one in five women worldwide or a girl every three seconds. 650,000,000 of the women who are alive today were forced to get married as a child. Princess Mabel van Oranje, the sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander, has co-launched VOW For Girls, a new initiative to put an end to child marriage worldwide.
Princess…