First, with regard to post-2015, right now all the member states have negotiated a draft text, the open working group, it's called. There's a draft text now, which has 17 goals, and on average, 10 targets under each goal.
Ending child marriage is part of the third target in the goal about gender equality. As it's phrased right now—end all harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation—we're happy with that. I mean, I would always love to see stronger language, but we can absolutely live with that.
Canada was definitely one of the countries that took the lead in working to see this incorporated, but it also did a lot to reach out to countries that have high prevalence to bring them on board, because ultimately we do want to see leadership from across the globe and not just from a few countries on this issue. What we don't know as we enter the negotiations now for the open working group document is whether there will be pressure to merge some of them. What we don't want to see happen is that child marriage ends up being associated just with violence against girls and women, or just with education, or just with maternal health, or just with equality. That's not what child marriage is. Child marriage is related to all of these things.
The beautiful thing is that very often these development goals are described as we can't measure them, and they're all so wishy-washy. Well, you know what? We can actually measure child marriage. Not only that, we also know that if we're making progress on child marriage, we're making progress on a host of other development issues.
From that perspective, it is a really, really good goal, but we have to see that it doesn't get merged with other things. I know that Canada is working for that.