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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 ·

Pakistan’s Sindh orders inquiry into monsoon child brides

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