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First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born
By UN News
Mar 16, 2024 11:48 am

Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes even before they are born.

The arranged marriage typically involves the exchange of a highly prized and culturally important Zebu cow for teenage girls as young as 13 years old.

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