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Poverty drives child marriages among Syrian refugees

By DW
27 Oct 2018 | 12:00 pm | 2m 35s

More than a million Syrian refugees currently live in Lebanon, many of them in extreme poverty. Parents often marry off their daughters to save money. DW's Aya Ibrahim met a 14 year old bride-to-be in a refugee camp in the Beqaa valley.

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