Every year, nearly 12 million girls, one in every five, are married before the age of 18. Many face poverty, abuse, limited access to education, and poor health outcomes; and many more are crippled by laws meant to protect them.  
 

For those that think this is a marginal issue, we at the Clooney Foundation for Justice; Girls First Fund; Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage; and the Girls Opportunity Alliance, write to disprove the point. Our partnership, funded by the Gates Foundation, works to reveal the economic, strategic, and moral imperatives at risk if we ignore this topic, and we hope our example helps illustrate what multi-sector collaboration can do to amplify impact…