Within the project "Legal Assistance to Persons at Risk of Statelessness in Serbia", funded by UNHCR, Praxis prepared the report, “Child, Early and Forced Marriages in Serbia – regulations, response and prevention”.
The report presents the research results on the practical implementation of the Instruction on the manner of work of social welfare centres - guardianship authorities in the protection of children against child marriages, which regulates the work of social welfare centres in the protection of children from child, early and forced marriages, in situations where there is a risk of entering such a marriage, or where such a marriage exists. The report also provides an overview of Praxis activities and findings from 2020 related to child, early and forced marriages — mostly prevention activities in work with primary school children — as well as the views and attitudes of children about this issue.
Praxis research showed that less than half of social welfare centres keep separate records on child marriages (43%). The centres detected only 313 cases of the risk of child marriage or child marriage in the previous two years, while current data from UNICEF indicates that 34.1% of Roma girls in the age group 15–19 are currently married or cohabiting. The centres immediately intervened in only 29% of these cases, i.e. assessed that in less than a third of these cases there was a threat to the life, health and development of a child in need of protection, although the children were married or at risk of child marriage. The centres did not answer about the evaluation of undertaken measures and provided services for more than a third of the cases (36%) and managed to return only 21% of the children to their primary families by applying the available measures and services.
The report indicates that the competent institutions lack a systemic response, and that activities aimed at preventing child, early and forced marriages should be intensified immediately through a networked and multidisciplinary approach. Furthermore, all those involved should be continuously trained, informed and held accountable.
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