Heather Bar, center, a researcher at the New York-based Human Rights Watch speaks during the release of a report on child marriage in Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016. Traditional practices, poverty, last year's massive earthquake and Nepal's ongoing political instability mean child marriages remain a serious problem in the country, where 10 percent of the girls marry before they are 15, even though the government says it is making progress to combat the problem, rights groups say. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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