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Sadia is 16 and lives in a small village ouside Dhaka in Bangladesh. When she was 14 she was forced to marry. Sadia’s blog: http://sadia.blogg.no/

By definition, adolescents are persons from 10 – 19 years of age (UNICEF SOWC, 2011). In Bangladesh, there are an estimated 30 million adolescent boys

Yemen: End Child Marriage: This is a short documentary originaly by Human Rights Watch, Farsi subtiteled by Zanan TV. Yemen should protect its girls from

An 11 year-old Yemeni girl has drawn the world’s attention to the issue of child brides after denouncing her arranged marriage in an impassioned video

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Marking the end of the global campaign ’16 Days of Activism’ to combat violence against women and girls, the European Union, UNICEF, and the Lebanese

Mirriam is a 17-year-old who, like any other teenager, has ambitions and dreams. She wants to become a doctor. However, where Mirriam lives, child marriage

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This is Nada Al-Ahdal. NAda was only ten years old when he parents got her engaged to another man of Yemeni descent who was 25.