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Child Brides ADDS - 130423

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  • A nine-months pregnant Niruta, 14, carries grass to her family's farm for the animals to graze on in Kagati Village, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal on Jan. 30, 2007. Niruta moved in with the family of Durga, 17, and became pregnant when they were only engaged. In some circles of the more socially open Newar people, this is permissible. The harmful traditional practice of early marriage common in Nepal. The Kagati village, a Newar community, is most well known for its propensity towards this practice. Many Hindu families believe blessings will come upon them if marry off their girls before their first menstruation.
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  • Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair with eight-year-old brides Tehani and Ghada inside their mountain home in Hajjah, Yemen, Jan. 29, 2010.
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  • Portrait of Nujoud Ali, two years after her divorce when she was only eight years old from her husband, more than 20 years her senior, Sana'a, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2010. Nujoud's story sent shock waves around the country and caused parliament to consider a bill writing a minimum marriage age into law.
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  • Bibi Aisha, 19, is photographed in Afghanistan, May 13, 2010. In a practice known as "baad," Aisha's father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 6 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 16 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed and then returned to her family. Her father-in-law, husband and three other family members took her into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die. “I was a woman exchanged for someone else’s wrongdoing. [My new husband] was looking for an excuse to beat me.”
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  • Eight-year-old Million days before her wedding in Hajjah, Yemen, July 23, 2010. Her mother, who was married at the same age, was working covertly to stop the wedding.
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  • Fatima sits with her husband and four children in Hajjah, Yemen, July 28, 2010. It is unclear what age she is now, but Fatima says she was married around the age of 8 and started having children right after her menstruation. She has had two children die during pregnancy and guesses she is now about 22 years old. "What has happened to me is horrible. People should at least let young girls wait until their first period," she said.
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  • Tahani, 8, is seen with her husband Majed, 27, and her former classmate Ghada, 8, and her husband outside their home in Hajjah, Yemen, July 26, 2010.
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  • Majed, 27, and his bride Tahani, 8, are seen in Hajjah, Yemen, July 26, 2010. "Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him," Tahani recalls of the early days of her marriage.
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  • Debitu, 14, who is seven months pregnant, is seen in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Aug. 17, 2010. She escaped from her husband after months of abuse and is now homeless and uncertain of her future.
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  • Asia, 14, washes her newborn at home while her 2-year-old daughter plays in Hajjah, Yemen, July 30, 2010. Asia is still bleeding and ill from childbirth, yet has no knowledge of how to care for herself nor access to maternal health care.
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