The judicial officers should engage in extrajudicial efforts to address CEFM. At the regional level the legislative instruments include: African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1981), Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2005), African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990), African Youth Charter (2006), and the Kigali Declaration (2013). For the purposes of this paper, focus is on the following international laws: CEDAW, and the Convention on the Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriage (1962), and the following regional laws: The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990), African Youth Charter (2006), and Kigali Declaration (2013).