"Too young for marriage" makes a stop in Meknes

The photographic exhibition "Too young for marriage" makes its last stop in Meknes on June 11, 2014, before its return to New York. Organized by Amnesty International-Morocco (AIM) and the UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Morocco, it has traveled the world with poignant photos of young girls forced into marriage with men they do not know, deprived of their childhood and schooling. Young girls often exposed to sexual violence and early pregnancies leading to complications during childbirth and even leading to death. This exhibition is part of a multimedia campaign that aims to raise awareness about child marriage, to help girls who are already married, and to put an end to this practice, in order to prevent 142 million girls from suffering the same fate over the next ten years. The idea is to lift the veil on child marriage, which deprives girls of their education, health, an…