00:00¿Qué es lo que hacía?
00:01La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:03La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:05La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:07La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:09La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:11La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:13La madre me dio a un maldito.
00:15Iqra was just 13 when she was married off to her cousin.
00:19Now 17, she's already a mother of four.
00:22Instead of going to school,
00:24she spends her days cooking, cleaning,
00:26and caring for her children.
00:28According to the UN, one in six young girls in Pakistan
00:31are married in childhood.
00:32The country is now home to nearly 19 million child brides.
00:55Driven by poverty, tradition, and climate shocks,
00:57girls like Iqra are promised into marriage,
01:00sometimes with cousins,
01:01before they are even born.
01:03My mother was 13, 14 years old.
01:06My mother was 15, 16, 17 years old.
01:09We didn't understand how much married.
01:12We didn't get married.
01:14We didn't get married.
01:16Pakistan's legal marriage age is 16,
01:18but the law is poorly enforced,
01:20with 12% of girls married before they turned 15 years old.
01:24What is our lack of respect in Pakistan?
01:27If we don't do a child or a female,
01:29we don't do a decision-making decision-making.
01:31We don't take care of it.
01:32We don't take care of it.
01:33We don't take care of it.
01:34We don't take care of it.
01:35We don't take care of it.
01:37Boys in Pakistan can also be affected by child marriage.
01:40Raja was married as a teenager.
01:43With no education or job skills,
01:45he is trapped in a cycle of poverty
01:46and now collects scrap to survive.
01:48He is barely able to feed his children
01:50or support his pregnant wife.
01:52My mother is very bad,
01:54but we get married and get away from home.
01:59Gracias.
