the aim is for more girls to fully enjoy their childhood free from the threat of early marriage and to experience healthier safer and more empowered lives making their own decisions about education sexuality relationships marriage and childbearing a fundamental human rights violation that affects all aspects of a girls life child marriage was also widely recognized as an obstacle to the achievement of nearly every millennium development goal mdg the unfpaunicefglobal programme is working to strengthen the critical institutions and systems that deliver quality services and opportunities for girls lay the foundation for attitudinal change among families and communities and support governments to deliver on the sdg target on child marriage