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The teen activists who have stopped hundreds of child marriages in Bangladesh
Around the world, millions of underage girls are forced into marriages, and the practice is only predicted to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Dola Akter Reba was only 12, ‘matchmakers’ in the neighbourhood came knocking on her mother’s door, believing the young girl would make a good wife.
- Essam Al-Ghalib
- SBS News
“Some of my neighbours did that kind of work and they came to my …