Married at 11
ICRW’s Ann Warner weighs in on an Al Jazeera panel discussion of child marriage. Warner was joined by Lakshmi Sundaram of Girls Not Brides; Maria Al Masani of Madbakh Women’s Intiative; and Naana Otoo-Oyortey of Forward UK.
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