now on bbc news, bbc 100 women in conversation: amal clooney, michelle obama and melinda gates. year, 12 million girls are married before they reach the age of 18 — a practice the un has said will take 300 years to eradicate. now, three of the world's most high—profile humanitarians have vowed to tackle the issue together. but is this an impossible task? i have come to join michelle obama, amal clooney and melinda french gates on their first field visit together to malawi, a country where 42% of girls marry under the age of 18, to ask them how bad the issue is and if it can be turned around in a generation. michelle obama, thank you so much for speaking to us at bbc 100 women. thank you for being here, it's my pleasure. we're here to talk about the work you are doing to end child marriage along with amal clooney and melinda french gates. why is that an issue that is important to you personally? 0h...i have said this time and time again. i see myself in the girls that we are fighting for. you know, i see my daughters in those girls. if we just...put ourselves in those girls�* sho

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michelle obama, amal clooney, and melinda french gate say they want to end child marriage in less thaneration. our correspondent joined them on their first field visit to malala -- to molly were 42% of girls marry under the age of 18. this report is a bbc 100 women exclusive. reporter: it is not every day that some of the best-known women in the world pop into your class. they are here at a school in a district where a third of girls fall pregnant under 18. they are collaborating to fund local projects with the aim of keeping more girls in school. >> when i was your age, there were people in my community that did not think a girl like me, who didn't have money or wealth or connections, could do the things that i did. this is an urgent issue. the health of women and girls on this planet measures the health of our planet. can we can do better. and we can do better. this is an issue that could be solved tomorrow if all the world leaders made it a priority. it would not take 300 years. it could happen in less than a generation. reporter: it is illegal to marry under the age of 18 here. but

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for human rights lawyer amal clooney, outreach is the practical solution.alawi, and we're so excited to be able to learn what you need from lawyers. her foundation funds female lawyers across the continent. the law is a part of the solution, so the first thing was for malawi to change its laws so it did say the right thing on paper, which they did. and the rate has gone down since then, but not enough. so giving people access to the courts, and this is what we do, is fight for girls' rights in the courtroom, that's going to be a big piece. but we're also not naive enough to think that that's the only piece. you have to sort of form alliances and really sort of fight against these kinds of injustices with the determination that it takes to win a war. cultural practices mean that young brides are not taboo in rural malawi, but experts say poverty is the number one issue putting girls at risk. dowries can be as little as $15, but for desperate families, that can make a huge difference. rates are coming down when real work gets done. it's really a social norm p

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obama, amal clooney and melinda, french gates on the stage together talking about child marriage, which is obviously one of the huge barriers to girls completing their education around the world. and so that's that's pretty exciting to have the three of them together. the three of them share this passion and they co-wrote an op ed in around international women's day last month. so, you know, we're excited about what we're going to keep doing in the future on this. thank you. it's all exciting. yeah, thank you, holly. great. thanks. well, i originally was going to ask you a little bit more about the let's move and the particularly the bigger did the white house kitchen garden. but i'm going to move on because i think you answered some of those. i will plug the obama, you know, presidential center, which will have a fruit and vegetable garden. no wonder. so because, of course. well, let me switch a little bit. i wanted to i mean, clearly, mrs. obama's support of military families was evident and her focus on wellness and particularly mental health, by advocating for the campaign to change

human rights lawyer amal clooney wants that to change.e the victims of this don't know about it? because that�*s the issue, isn�*t it? because the law�*s there, but there�*s still such a high rate of child marriage. exactly. and the marriage happens in an informal setting with a tribal chief and a parent. exactly. so, i mean, ithink the law is a part of the solution. so the first thing was for malawi to change its law so it did say the right thing on paper, which they did, and the rate has gone down since then, but not enough. so, you know, giving people access to the courts — and this is what we do, is fight for girls' rights in the courtroom — that's going to be a big piece. but we're also not naive enough to think that that's the only piece. you have to sort of form alliances and really sort of fight against these kinds of injustices with the determination that it takes to win a war. cultural practices mean that young brides are not taboo in rural malawi, but experts say poverty is the number—one issue putting girls at risk. dowries ca