BACKGROUND 35. Child marriages in Zimbabwe are rife and notorious. Many young girls particularly in the rural areas where there is massive poverty are being subjected to early marriages before the age of eighteen (18). The recent ZimStat Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Report of 2014, indicates that from a sample of people aged between 15 and 49 years, 5% ·of women and 0.3% of men age were first married or in union before the age of 15 years. Further, from a sample of people aged 20 ~ 49 years, one in three women and less than one in twenty men were first married or in union before the age of eighteen (18). 36. The same report shows that young people aged between 15 ~ 19 years currently tnarried or in union were 24.5% and 1. 7% for women and men respectively. The percentage of women and men aged 15 ~ 49 years who are in a polygamous union was 10.1% and 3% respectively. 3 7. I reproduce herein, Table 24, which is found at page 36 of this survey produced by ZimStats and then published in September of 2014. MISC Indicator Description Marriage before age 15 Percentage of people who were first married or in union before age 15 Value Indicator 8.8 (a) Women age 15- 49 years (b) Men age 15 - 49 years (c) Men age 15 - 54 years 5.0 0.3 0.3 10