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Underage marriages increase in Lebanon during pandemic
Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage.
Children dressed as brides take part in a Beirut protest against underage marriage
Aid groups in Lebanon say the country s ongoing economic crisis, compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is forcing more children into underage marriages. From what we have been able to observe in the field and from what our local partners are telling us, we believe that child marriage is increasing as a result of the difficult circumstances here today, Johanna Eriksson, who heads UNICEF s Child Protection Program in Lebanon, told DW. It is just one of the negative coping mechanisms that people here are resorting to.
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