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Once a girl is sold as a child bride, she is extremely unlikely to continue ... appealed to countries to inject cash back into the Afghan economy after humanitarian aid has dried up.
(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and ... Also found guilty were Gul's husband, a member of the Afghan army, and her brother-in-law, both of whom ...
"It is a fact that it is underreported," Hussaini says about Afghan boys with brides. "The research that has been conducted does not highlight the situation for boys. This is now a point for us ...
CBS News has learned that "several" Afghan women and girls who were evacuated ... countries with young girls that they had claimed as brides and that some of the girls were sexually abused.
Long-standing tradition holds that being a virgin is required for brides in Afghanistan, and they are expected to prove it. One Afghan woman, speaking with RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan on ...
"It's in every Afghan woman's nature to want a better dress than what other women are wearing," says the 28-year old bride-to-be. And that, she says, means buying the most expensive of dresses.
"In the last few weeks, they have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their ... In regards to the Afghan people, Karimi criticized the media ...
The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied ... Also found guilty were Gul’s husband, a member of the Afghan army, and her brother-in-law, both of whom have been on the ...
KABUL — The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied ... Also found guilty were Gul's husband, a member of the Afghan army, and her brother-in-law, both of whom have been ...