Ending the Practice of Child Marriage

Monday, November 25, 2013
Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters
Speaker
Rachel B. Vogelstein

Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Moderators
Ruth Messinger

President, American Jewish World Service

Religion and Foreign Policy Series and Women and Foreign Policy Program

Rachel Vogelstein, CFR's fellow for women and foreign policy, and Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, discuss ending the practice of child marriage at the American Academy of Religion 2013 Annual Meeting, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Learn more about CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

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