Tag: child marriages

IRIN: Blog: Sold for six thousand dollars NAIROBI, 9 September 2008 (IRIN) – In Afghanistan, Fatima, 11, was recently engaged to a man twice her age in exchange for US$6,000. In Niger, an unnamed 13-year-old was married to a 38-year-old man in her village. These and many more are the faces of the World Vision…