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Why efforts to protect children from early marriage have faltered in the Middle East

Conflicts, disasters, and rising conservatism have rolled back women’s rights, says Oxfam’s Hadeel Qazzaz
Despite laws setting 18 as the minimum marriage age in many Arab countries, legal loopholes undermine progress

By ANAN TELLO · 22 March 2025

Pakistan’s Sindh orders inquiry into monsoon child brides

By AFP · 20 August 2024

South Asia home to world’s highest number of child brides – UN

By Reuters · 19 April 2023

Requests to bring in child brides OK’d; legal under US laws

By AP · 12 January 2019

Child brides call on US states to end ‘legal rape’

By Reuters · 25 October 2018

Child brides sold into sex slavery, domestic work, say Indian officials

By Reuters · 01 May 2018

‘I have nothing’ cries Syrian child bride as poverty drives more refugee girls to wed

By Reuters · 16 March 2018

Can child marriage be stopped? One girl did and wants others in Indonesia to follow

By Reuters · 29 August 2017

Adults are marrying children as young as 10 in US: report reveals

By Arab News · 11 July 2017

Child brides are on the rise in India’s towns and cities

By Reuters · 02 June 2017

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