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Geuzen Medal 2018 awarded to Girls Not Brides
On January 12, it was announced that the 2018 Geuzen Medal will be awarded to Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Princess Mabel van Oranje, Chair of Girls Not Brides, and Executive Director Lakshmi Sundaram, will be presented with the medal on March 13. The Geuzen Medal is awarded as a tribute to people and organisations working for human rights and who oppose dictatorship, discrimination and racism.
Marrying for love is still not the most normal thing in the world in the 21st century. More than 700 million women alive today were married before the age of 18. Each year, 15 million girls are married and their youth comes to an abrupt end. This is unacceptable, according to Girls Not Brides; a partnership of approximately a thousand organisations in over 95 countries, united by a commitment to end child marriage and enable every girl to fulfil her potential.
