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                                <title><![CDATA[ South Asia home to world's highest number of child brides, UN says ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Indian child marriage arrests leave teen brides in the lurch ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Marriage under 18 is illegal in India, though almost a quarter of married Indian women wed before their 18th birthday, reports show. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India arrests over 2,000 in child marriage crackdown ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 01:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Police say girls as young as 12 are still being married to men in Assam state, with a total of 4,074 cases to investigate. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Philippines bans child marriage ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:02:26 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The government says the law on banning child marriage is consistent with international conventions on the rights of women and children. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Putrajaya obliged to raise minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls, says rights group ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 12-year-old’s marriage causes stir in Iraq ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The legal age for marriage in Iraq is 18 but can be lowered to 15 in cases of parental or judicial consent. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Hunger forces Afghans to sell young daughters into marriage ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:31:11 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Child marriage has been practised in Afghanistan for centuries, but war and climate change-related poverty have driven many families to resort to striking deals earlier and earlier in girls' lives. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Behind the veil of child marriage ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Siva Selan ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Activists welcome the change over the years but say more groundwork is needed to dislodge long-held social norms. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Child marriage in Malaysia: how old is too young? It depends on who you ask ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 06:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Some religious authorities do not see child marriage as sensitive or worth discussing. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Disfigured by acid, the face of violence against Yemen’s women ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
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