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UN children’s agency welcomes drop in number of underage brides, but warns 12 million girls still getting married each yearThe number of child marriages is declining worldwide, but at too slow a pace for any hope of eliminating the practice this centur…
Read MoreAt 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free educationPriyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the pro…
Read MoreFemale children are seen as an economic burden, and tough times are setting back progress by a generation, gender equality charity saysThousands of adolescent girls across south-east Asia and the Pacific are being forced to leave school and get married…
Read MoreCriticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minoritiesThe family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after alle…
Read MoreSave the Children predicts worst rise in child marriage rates in 25 years as a result of pandemicUp to 2.5 million more girls around the world are at risk of being forced into child marriage over the next five years as a result of the impact of Covid-1…
Read MoreThe pandemic’s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade Samita (not her real name) is 17 and lives in the Lamjung district of Nepal. It was never easy, even before coronavirus, for her to att…
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