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Child marriage in Niger

Name: Child marriage in Niger
Uploaded: 2016-10-18T21:19:57Z
Description: Every year 15 million girls worldwide are married before 18. A short video on child marriage in Niger, in Africa, home to nine of the 10 countries with the…

Published 18 October 2016 in Blog

Worldwide, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18 each year. That is 28 girls every minute, or one every 2 seconds.

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According to UNICEF, nine of the 10 countries with the highest rates of child marriage are in Africa. This short video looks at child marriage in Niger.

Source: YouTube