Ravi Verma Interviewed by NPR on the Topic of Child Marriage
ICRW’s Ravi Verma spoke to NPR’s global health blog, Goats and Sodas, about the prevalence of child marriage in India, as well as the factors that drive parents to marry their daughters early.
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