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South Sudan: Facebook Auction a Sign Social Media Must Do More to Protect Girls' Rights
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 26 November 2018
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Advertising an 18-year-old on Facebook for marriage brought more attention to the substantial riches to be gained from trading adolescent girls in this way. As a result there is a very real risk that more families will put their daughters up for marriage online, or off, writes Susannah Birkwood for Plan International.
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Lawyers in the country are urging the government to shut down an online auction for marriage rights to a teenage girl saying the practice is a gross human rights violation. Read more »
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