Upper Guinea News Today

Those most at risk are very young women, barely out of childhood. Around 700 million women worldwide were married before they turned 18. In south asia, one in two girls are child brides. And in africa and latin america child marriages are commonplace. That figure is 12 in kyrgyzstan, a country that also has a particularly extreme version of forced marriage bride abduction. In weddings in kyrgyzstan can be lavish affairs. City hall in the capital bishkek is known as the wedding palace and it live...

Those most at risk are very young women, barely out of childhood. Around 700 million women worldwide were married before they turned 18. In south asia, one in two girls are child brides. And in africa and latin america child marriages are commonplace. That figure is 12 in kyrgyzstan, a country that also has a particularly extreme version of forced marriage bride abduction. In weddings in kyrgyzstan can be lavish affairs. City hall in the capital bishkek is known as the wedding palace and it live...

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