Believes it is important to tackle the multiple causes of early and forced marriage, including harmful age-old traditions having little regard for gender equality, women’s rights, health and wellbeing, the lack of educational opportunities, weak legal and policy responses, and, very often, the endemic poverty in the communities concerned;
meni, da se je treba spopasti s številnimi vzroki za zgodnje in prisilne poroke, med katerimi so zlasti škodljive starodavne tradicije – v katerih ni veliko prostora za spoštovanje enakosti spolov ter pravice, zdravje in dobro počutje žensk –, pomanjkanje izobraževanja in ponudbe za šolanje, šibki pravni in politični odzivi ter zelo pogosto globoko zakoreninjena revščina v zadevnih skupnostih;