Pakistan, one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, is also the sixth country with the highest number of teenage marriages in the world. A trend that has continued to worsen in recent years, partly due to climate change. In the southern province of Sindh, which is hit every summer by violent monsoon rains and record temperatures, young girls are often married off by their parents following climate disasters for financial gains. Among the surviving families of villages destroyed in the severe floods of 2022 that plunged a third of the country under water, child marriages have surged. Report by Shahzaib Wahlah and Sonia Ghezali, with the collaboration of Aftab Memon.
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