child brides

“I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.”
“Whether you like it or not, I want these marriages to be terminated.”
“I could not go through with my marriage. This is my decision. This is my life.”
A new UNICEF report has demanded more aggressive government actions to end the practice.
Neetu Sarkar, married at 13 and a mother of twins at 14, braved poverty and prejudice to follow her dream.
Nearly one-third of Bangladeshi girls are married by age 15.