01/09/2026
In Afghanistan, a child’s life can still be sold for a sack of flour.
Leila was married at nine so her family could eat.
Her mother said: “I had to sacrifice one to feed the others.”
School bans, extreme poverty, and almost no right to divorce have pushed more girls into forced marriage.
Maternal deaths are among the highest in the world.
Childhood should not be a price tag.
An important contribution from Giorgia Pietropaoli.
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Forced marriages, broken bodies, and the daily tragedy of women under the Taliban yoke: the portrait of a country where poverty is paid for with childhood. By Giorgia Pietropaoli Sometimes de…