Interior Ministry launches information campaign against child marriage

The Georgian Interior Ministry has launched an information campaign against child marriage in partnership with the local office of the United Nations Population Fund, the Ministry said on Wednesday.

Entitled Do not Take Childhood Away, the initiative aims to eliminate child marriage and increase awareness about the availability and reliability of the police to react to relevant cases in a timely manner, the state body announced.

Within the programme, representatives of the Ministry have handed out booklets in Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani languages to communities across the country, sharing information on the goals of the campaign.

Expected to run for a month with events in capital Tbilisi and other regions of the country, the project is supported by the UNFPA as part of the UN programme for gender equality.