Ending Child Marriage: Legal Approaches

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Speakers
Yasmeen Hassan

Global Director, Equality Now

Jody Heymann

Dean, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; Founding Director, World Policy Analysis Center

Presider
Rachel B. Vogelstein

Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Women and Foreign Policy Program

Rachel Vogelstein moderates a conversation with Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Yasmeen Hassan, global director of Equality Now, about their ongoing research and the role of national and international legal systems in ending the practice of child marriage.

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