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Syria: Too Young for Marriage

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 @ 03:33 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Syria
Topics:: Gender
Languages:: Arabic

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From Syria, Allosh [Ar] comments on under-age marriages - saying that 18 is too young an age to tie the knot.

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