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1 in 9 girls marry before age 15, and here’s what to do about it

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Child Marriage

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Deseret News

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Lane Anderson

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ICRW’s Allison Glinski, gender and development specialist, weighs in on how poverty contributes to the prevalence or early and forced marriage around the world in an interview with Deseret News.

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