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forced marriage
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On International Women’s Day, 14-year-old survivor Maira hopes for freedom
This International Women’s Day, Christian girls in Pakistan fear for their safety. Maira Shabaz knows the dangerous reality more than most. She escaped her captor – but not before he brutalised, blackmailed, married and forcibly…
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Abduction, rape, blackmail: A Pakistani teenager’s fight for justice
In Pakistan, a fourteen-year-old girl and her family were forced into hiding after she escaped her abductor who forcibly married her. She escaped and gave a statement to the court saying she was abused and…
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