‘I expect them to be beaten… at 14, they will be pregnant’: Afghan parents sell off their daughters, two and five, for marriage because they ‘had no choice’
An Afghan couple have tried to justify marrying off their daughters, two and five, for money by claiming they had ‘no choice’. Gul Bobo, who lives in the rural village of Tayz Nāwah in northwest Afghanistan, said that increasingly frequent droughts have made her and her husband’s lives far harder. These droughts have affected her … Read more