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Child Brides by Stephanie Sinclair

Photos : 

1. An Ethiopian teenager breast feeds her baby in a rural area outside Bahir Dar. Her husband was maimed shortly after they were married and her lack of education means she must live with her family indefinitely. (16 August 2010)

2. Maya, 8, and Kishore, 13, pose for a wedding photo inside their new home, the day after the Hindu holy day of Akshaya Tritiya in North India. (26 April 2009)

3. Tahani (in pink), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, poses for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah. Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and international agreements forbid the practice yet this tradition still spans continents, language and religion. (10 June 2011)

4. Rajni, 5, was woken up at 4 am and carried by her uncle to be married in a secret wedding ceremony on the Hindu holy day of Akshaya Tritiya in North India. (26 April 2009)

5. Young girls sit inside a home in the Raffai Village of Al-Zohra district outside of Al Hudayda. (09 February 2010)

[Credit : Stephanie Sinclair/VII Photo Agency for National Geographic Magazine]

Links :

• Child Brides in National Geographic magazine
• www.stephaniesinclair.com