UNREPORTED WORLD: Nigeria: Child Brides, Stolen Lives

Unreported World reveals the devastating effects of child marriage and pregnancy in Nigeria, where nearly half of all girls in the country’s northern states are married by the age of 15, often to much older men. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Julie Noon travel to Nigeria to investigate why there has been resistance to outlawing child marriage and what it has meant for thousands of young girls.

Friday 28 November 2008
7:35pm, Channel 4

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