Of the 38 states that have a death penalty, 17 have set a minimum age of 18, either by legislation or judicial decision.
According to the legislation, the minimum age for marriage is 18 years for women and 20 years for men.
These successes at community level are also supported by work at the national level to create or amend legislation regarding the minimum age of marriage and to ensure the implementation of laws where they exist.
The legislation raised the minimum age for buying a rifle from 18 to 21, enacted a "red flag law" that gave law enforcement a way to seize guns from dangerous or mentally ill people, and created a three-day waiting period for some gun sales — all of which Hill now wants to roll back.
Alaska, Utah and Alabama already have legislation that sets the minimum age at 19 for buying cigarettes, and supporters say that since the laws were enacted, underage smoking has dropped.
In addition, article 21(2) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990) requires states to prohibit child marriage and to adopt legislation "to specify the minimum age of marriage to be 18 years".
In Bolivia, UNICEF strengthened links between different levels of government and provided advice during the drafting of legislation to establish a minimum age for employment and protection for adolescent workers.
The Child Rights Act, introduced in 2003, raised the minimum age of marriage for girls to 18, but the legislation has not been ratified by states in the Muslim-dominated north of the country where child marriage is common, with nearly half of girls married by the age of 15 and 78% by the time they hit 18.
In reviewing the minimum age of employment regulation in these MICS2 and MICS3 countries, their legislation generally looked like a combination of these principles from the two conventions.
And many States have publicly committed themselves to adopting legislation that would institutionalise 18 as the standard minimum age for all forms of recruitment and involvement in military activities.
