West Bekaa

Training session

‘My daughter demands more’: The men fighting child marriage in Lebanon

Conflict

Around Lebanon, men working as peer leaders are educating other men on the damage that child marriage does to girls and young women, in the hopes of convincing fathers to stop marrying off their daughters.

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