Child Brides
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Food crisis leading to rise in child brides, Canadian aid agencies warnThe agency says 12 million girls under the age of 18 become child brides each year, forcing them to abandon school while putting their health at risk through early pregnancies.CanadaAug 10, 2022
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UN launches program to end child marriage by 2030More than 700 million girls and women alive now were married as children, U.N. agencies say, an issue the new program hopes to eliminate by 2030.WorldMar 15, 2016
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B.C. celebrates International Day of the GirlWorldwide, up to 50 percent of sexual assaults are committed against girls under 16. According to UN statistics, about 130 million girls and women in the world have experienced female genital mutilation.Oct 11, 2014
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The story behind Thea, the 12-year-old child bride from NorwayThea is a 12-year-old girl living in Norway and on Saturday she is set to marry a 37-year-old man becoming the country’s first official child bride.WorldOct 9, 2014
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Too young to wed: scary truth about child bridesYoung girls being put up for marriage is rooted in deep and extreme religious traditions, and it is a practice that is apparent as ever in the Middle East. Girls that are as young as 5 years old are being forced to get married to grown men.Aug 20, 2013
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