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Bangladesh: Child Marriage

Monday, July 16th, 2007 @ 16:21 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Bangladesh
Topics:: Children, Development, Law

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Voices of South on the issue of child marriage in Bangladesh, and how a 13 year old's classmates protested when she was to be married to a 23 year old man.

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