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Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh

Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, 13-year-old Beezly Roy is preparing for her wedding.

She is to be married the following day.

Despite child marriage being illegal, it is not unusual. Almost a third of all Bangladeshi girls marry before they are 15 years old.

Their futures are not good - they face dangerous childbirth, even death, sexual violence and virtual slavery.

But help is coming from an unexpected source, a young man from a rural community who has made it his life's goal to end child marriages.

101 East travels to Bangladesh where young girls are being married off too young.

Read Tania Rashid's Reporter's Notebook: 'Child marriage is real, it almost happened to me'

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