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Mexico’s Senate urges state governments to ban child marriages

Mexico's Senate urged governments and state legislatures to prohibit marriages or unions between minors, as it is a practice still recurrent in the country.

They called states to reinforce in their legislation the provisions prohibiting marriage between minors under 18 years of age, with regard to what is established in article 45 of the General Law on the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents, being of utmost importance to eliminate exceptions or special agreements that allow it.

In the notice published in the Parliamentary Gazette, the Senate asked local governments to promote the rights of children and avoid the . . .

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