20 novembro, 2011

Cerca de 8.000 raparigas de nacionalidade britânica são obrigas anualmente a casar contra a sua vontade

When 13-year-old Sameem Ali was offered a reward for doing household chores — a holiday with her extended family on the other side of the world — she was overjoyed. Still a child, Sameem imagined sandcastles and a beach to play on. The reality was very different. When she travelled from her family home in Moss Side, an inner-city suburb of Greater Manchester, she found herself in a small Pakistani village with no electricity and no running water. It was then that her mother told her she was there to marry a man twice her age whom she had seen only once at a family get-together in Pakistan. [...]

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