child brides
- Jacqueline de Chollet
- • January 30, 2016
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It began with a young woman named Bhanwari. In 1992, I was traveling in a remote part of the desert area of Rajasthan, India, near the Pakistan border, far from a main road, down a dirt track. I came into …
- Categories: India
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- Sarada Lahangir
- • December 22, 2014
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Sujata Behera, a 17-year-old Dalit at the bottom of India’s caste system, did the unthinkable last year. Just two weeks before her upcoming marriage, she told her parents, who live in a remote village in the eastern Indian state of …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 9, 2014
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Among a clutch of new studies surveying the fate of children globally in 2014, a year that may be remembered as the most violent and catastrophic in more than half a century, Unicef has looked into the future of Africa …
- Categories: Governance, Health and Population, Refugees