Drought and soaring food prices force more girls into early marriage
As drought and soaring food prices force more girls into early marriage, Amira, 12, escapes from marrying a 70-year-old man on her wedding day. Amira looks young for her twelve years of age and she’s shy, looking only at Jamila Rashid, the local children’s officer, when she speaks. Two months ago, she was rescued from an attempted child marriage,…