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1 Advisory Commission for the Protection and Welfare of Children and Young People: Child Welfare Committee: The Age of Marriage and the Age of Consent 1 (1927)

handle is hein.unl/acpwc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: C. P. E.90 (1)- LEAGUE OF NATIONS Geneva, April 30th, 1527. ADVISORY COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE The Age of Marriage and the Age of Consent INTRODUCTION. THE SUBJECT CONSIDERED GENERALLY. THE AGE OF MARRIAGE. THE AGE OF CONSENT. THE AGE OF MARRIAGE AND OF CONSENT CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE MORAL PROTECTION OF THE YOUNG. Appendix: EXTRACTS FROM THE LAW OR FROM OFFICIAL REPLIES ON THE AGE OF MARRIAGE AND THE AGE OF CONSENT. INTRODUCTION. At the fourth session of the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Protection of Children, held at Geneva in May 1925, a report containing a programme of work was drawn up, which was subsequently adopted by the Council. The second item on the programme of work in the report was as follows: A compilation of the law relating to the age of consent and to the age of marriage. By the term ' age of consent' is meant the age under which consent of the victim is not considered an extenuation of an offence against morality. This information is required in connection with a study proposed by the delegate of Uruguay to ascertain to what extent the age fixed for consent and for marriage may affect the question of the moral protection of children and young persons. In accordance with this resolution, enquiries as to the age of marriage and the age of consent were addressed to fifty-seven States. A provisional report was drawn up (C.P.E.36(1)), based on twenty-six replies received, and was considered by the Child Welfare Committee at its second session, in March 1926, when the following resolution was passed: The Committee, having considered the provisional report on the age of consent and of marriage, requests the Council to instruct the Secretariat to invite those countries which have not replied to do so, and those countries which have supplied incomplete data to give the additional information required, in order that the Committee may be enabled to complete the study which it is making on the subject. At the fortieth session of the Council, the report of the Child Welfare Committee was considered and the following resolution was passed with regard to the age of marriage and consent: The Council instructs the Secretary-General to ask those Governments which have not supplied information on the subject of the age of consent and of marriage to consider the possibility of doing so. The resolution of the Council did not sanction the obtaining of additional information from countries which had furnished incomplete data. Replies have now been received from forty-five States. Guatemala and Peru have written stating that the information required will be forwarded, but the full reply has not yet come to hand. The Argentine and Canada have sent information as regards the age of marriage only and Publications of the League of Nations IV. SOCIAL 1927. IV. 8.

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