Mariam (pseudonym), 15, from Ghouta, Syria engaged to a Syrian man, aged 20, shows her engagement ring, in Amman, Jordan. She dropped out of 7th grade. In 2011, 12 percent of registered marriages in Syrian refugee communities in Jordan involved a girl und

Mariam (pseudonym), 15, from Ghouta, Syria engaged to a Syrian man, aged 20, shows her engagement ring, in Amman, Jordan. She dropped out of 7th grade. In 2011, 12 percent of registered marriages in Syrian refugee communities in Jordan involved a girl under the age of 18. This had increased to 31.7 percent in the first quarter of 2014.  

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