This policy brief seeks to inform policymakers, law enforcement officials, and human rights defenders of key legal issues and potential legal gaps contributing to the continuation of child marriage in Pakistan. This assessment highlights multiple challenges faced in the implementation of existing affirmative laws and makes linkages to other causes of systemic discrimination in law and practice. It also puts forward a set of recommendations for addressing these gaps and challenges in order to promote access to justice for victims of child marriage. The policy brief uses a broad definition of access to justice that includes “access by people, in particular from poor and disadvantaged groups, to fair, effective, and accountable mechanisms for the protection of rights, control of abuse of power, and resolution of conflicts. This includes the ability of people to seek and obtain a remedy through justice systems.”

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