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| Tahani (front), 8, with her husband Majed, 27, and her
former classmate Ghada (rear), 8, and her husband outside in Yemen |
The United
Nations designated October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child in an effort to start a global
conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are
currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries. To mark the occasion and draw attention to the problem of child brides, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair teamed up with National Geograpic
to create a series of heart-breaking photos depicting girls as young
as five years old being married off to middle-aged men in countries like Yemen, India and Ethiopia.
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| Faiz, 40 (left), and Ghulam (right), 11, sit in her home prior to their
wedding in the rural Damarda Village, Afghanistan on September 11, 2005 |
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| Debritu, right, 14, escaped from her husband while seven month pregnant |
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| Rock bottom: A young prostitute named China sits stunned after being
beat up by a man visiting Kabele Five in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
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| Nujood Ali, was ten when she fled her abusive, much
older husband and took a taxi to the courthouse in Sanaa, Yement |
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Gruesome: Police woman Malalai Kakar (back
right) arrests Janan, 35, after he tried to kill
his 15-year-old wife Jamila for angering him by fleeing her home to stay with her mother following years of abuse |
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| Child mothers: Asia, a 14-year-old mother, washes her new baby girl at home in Hajjah while her two-year-old daughter plays |
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