child brides

Paska Akwero and son

Uganda’s abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal

Conflict

During Uganda’s armed conflict, tens of thousands of children were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Now they are adults, and many of them have returned. But after spending formative years in the wilderness — can they fully come back?

Irina Bedavi is an activist who works with migrant women escaping abusive and violent relationships in Germany. She is standing at a bus stop where she has met girls who left their abusive husbands. She asked that her identity be hidden for her own safet

Germany is taking a harder look at child marriage

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Amira, who married at 16, says she faced severe abuse at the hands of her husband and found it difficult to escape.

The refugee crisis is turning more girls into child brides

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