Plan International, which organises the International Day for the Girl Child, has released a report of research conducted in Columbia, Uganda and Spain which outlines that gender inequality is still rampant in societies across the world.
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15 million girls under the age of 18 are married off every year - that's one every two seconds
Today is the sixth annual International Day of the Girl.
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It highlighted the fact that access to education should not be determined by a child’s gender, yet 130 million girls globally are out of school and 15 million girls of primary school age will never even enter a classroom.
A key obstacle to girls participating in school life if child marriage, according to the report. Every year, 15 million girls under the age of 18 are married – one every two seconds.
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