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15-year-old Nasoin Akhter is consoled by a friend on the day of her wedding to a 32-year-old man, Aug. 20, 2015 in Manikganj, Bangladesh.

Child marriage in Bangladesh is a persistent problem despite minimum age laws and government vows to curtail the practice.

Nearly one-third of Bangladeshi girls are married by 15, the highest rate for that age group in the world, according to UNICEF.

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