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Indian Woman’s Hair chopped Off for extra-marital affair

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Indian Woman’s Hair chopped Off for extra-marital affair

  Shalishi Sabha, Bengali equivalent of Khap panchayats, generally known as the Kangaroo court at Murshidabad, West Bengal asked man to cut wife’s hair for alleged adultery. A kangaroo court is a judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. The term originated from Australia, may also apply...

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Every seven seconds a child is married.

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Oct 2016
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Every seven seconds a child is married.

The report by Save the Children explodes the finding that One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds in the world. Conflict, poverty and humanitarian crises are seen as major factors that enforced child marriage. The report says girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia. Early marriage can trigger...

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