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Poverty October 11, 2017 | 3:03 pm

Dominican Govt., UNICEF work to root out child marriage

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tues. launched a media campaign to help root out child marriage and early marriages, which affects a third of girls and adolescents before the age of 18, EFE reports. The initiative "The worst novel" in telenovela format, tells the story of thousands of girls and adolescents in the Dominican Republic thr

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