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Heather Barr is a senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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While researching child marriage in Nepal, Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch was struck by how little girls knew about family planning. To stop girls becoming young brides, she writes, they need to be empowered to control when – and if – they become mothers.
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