CNN: Humaiya Akhter is 16 years old and already six of her friends are married. Some have children. She is from the village of Tajpur in the Joypurat district of Bangladesh, a country where 66% of girls are married before 18 years of age, according to children's charity World Vision. Her grandmother was married at the age of nine and her mother at the age of 16, and Humaiya is determined to break the cycle. She now campaigns locally against child marriage and has helped girls in her community to...
URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/08/world/early-marriage-report/index.html?hpt=ias_t2
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