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climateadaptation: foreignaffairsmagazine: The Truth About Opium Brides Bartering girls into marriage to pay off opium debts has become more prevalent in recent years in Afghanistan. Farmers, middlemen in the drug trade, drug couriers, and even some drug lords themselves sell their daughters to more powerful traffickers and smugglers — and very little is being done to combat the injustice. More here.

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foreignaffairsmagazine:

The Truth About Opium Brides

Bartering girls into marriage to pay off opium debts has become more prevalent in recent years in Afghanistan. Farmers, middlemen in the drug trade, drug couriers, and even some drug lords themselves sell their daughters to more powerful traffickers and smugglers — and very little is being done to combat the injustice.

More here.

#opium  #foreign affairs magazine  #afghanistan  #women  #international woman's day  #opium brides  #women's rights  #queue  
∞  August 13, 2012 at 07:58am
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