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A pregnant woman wearing a face mask and gloves holds her belly as she waits in line for groceries at St. Mary's Church in Waltham, Mass.
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Brides sit together during a mass wedding ceremony in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 25, 2014.
Justice
Pakistan cracks down on men trading young daughters to settle debts and disputes
Safia Mahjebin
Culture
Child brides are a little-known, but very real, problem in America today
Irina Bedavi is an activist who works with migrant women escaping abusive and violent relationships in Germany. She is standing at a bus stop where she has met girls who left their abusive husbands. She asked that her identity be hidden for her own safet
Justice
Germany is taking a harder look at child marriage
happy refugee girl
Justice
The best and worst countries to be a girl
Amira, who married at 16, says she faced severe abuse at the hands of her husband and found it difficult to escape.
Justice
The refugee crisis is turning more girls into child brides
Sonita
Culture
Outside of class, this Afghan teen rapper travels the world to end child marriage
The church of Eclaron (France) prepared for a wedding
Justice
The US has a forced child marriage problem, too
A silhouetted bride and groom
Belief
Saved or exploited? Dutch alarm rises over child brides from Syria.
Mabel van Oranje
Culture
Mabel van Oranje of Girls Not Brides wants to end child marriage in one generation
Memory Banda parliament
Health
Memory Banda escaped child marriage in Malawi, but her 11-year-old sister wasn’t so lucky
Difret's producer and director
Culture
Advocates hope a movie can make the difference in ending child marriage
Girls from a scholarship program in Nepal
Development
South Asian leaders try new ways to reduce child marriage
Priest Melak Birhan Ewenetu Yetemegne
Global Politics
How an Ethiopian priest changed his views on child marriage
Girls Club at the Merawi Primary School in Ethiopia
Saving Innocence: The Global Fight to End Child Marriage
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