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'No other choice': Afghans sell daughters as hunger and poverty bite / V000_9Q82AG
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Two men in Afghanistan talk about how ‘hunger and hardship’ forced them to sell their daughters - one, who is eight years old, was sold for about $3,000. Child marriage has been practised in Afghanistan for centuries, but war and climate change-related poverty have driven many families to resort to striking deals earlier and earlier in girls' lives. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES