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Early marriages are the norm in small villages of Muslim countries. After celebrating the wedding with relatives, young bride veil and go into a new life with their husbands. "Some rural women view marriage as salvation from the total control of their families," said the activist.
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1. "Whenever I saw him, I hid. I was disgusted to see him "- so Taganov (in pink) recalls the early days of her marriage to Majid, when she was six years old and he was twenty-five. The young wife posed for this photo, along with former classmate Ghada, also became a little bride, far from their homes in mountainous Hajj.



2. After celebrating the wedding with a relative, Yemeni bride Sidaba and Halle burqa veil dress and go to a new life with their husbands. "Some rural women view marriage as salvation from the total control of their families", says living in the capital Sanaa activist.



3. This group of young brides in the countryside, in the west of Yemen have been quiet and shy, until the conversation switched to education. Most of the girls who married at the age of fourteen to sixteen years, never attended school, but say they still hope that will be able to get an education.



4. Asia, fourteen mother washes her baby girl at home in the Hajj and her two year old daughter plays. In Asia, continued bleeding, and she was very weak after childbirth, she had no education or access to information about how to take care of yourself and your health.



5. Nudzhod Ali was ten years old when she ran away from his tormentor-husband, much older than her and a taxi arrived at the courthouse in Sana'a, Yemen. Bold action girl turned her into a national heroine - a fighter for women's rights. They are now divorced, she returned home with her family and then go to school.



6. Malalai Kakar Kandahar police arrest man who repeatedly beat his wife with a knife fifteen, for disobeying him. "With him will not do anything," said Kakar, when asked what would happen to this man. "Men are kings." Kakar was later killed by the Taliban.



7. Even after midnight, when the five-year Rajani awakened from sleep and uncle carried her to her wedding. Child marriage is illegal in India, so that such ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of the morning. They become the secret that keeps the whole village, explained one farmer.



8. Rajani and her boy groom barely look at each other, while they are married before the sacred fire. According to tradition, the young bride continue to live at home until puberty, when the second ceremony will mark their passage under the full authority of her husband.



9. Although early marriages are the norm in her small Nepalese village sixteen Surita screaming in protest, when she leaves the house of his family, and its transport to the village of her new husband.



10. When parents Sunil, who lives in the state of Rajasthan, India, organized by her marriage at the age of eleven, she threatened to report them to the police. They relented and Sunil is now thirteen, to stay in school. "Education will give it an edge over the other," says her mother is now.



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