“To Take Control, She Had to Run.”

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Nasreen was just 16, but her family had already arranged an engagement for her, to a cousin on her father’s side whom she had never met before they were betrothed. The bruises that covered her body, inflicted by her future in-laws while she worked for them, she said, were evidence that a future of violence and pain lay before her.

…She hurriedly packed a bag, putting in sanitary pads and 5,000 rupees (about $60) of savings from gifts that her mother and other family members had given her when she got engaged. It was cold, so she added a sweater, then a bedsheet. She hid everything under a shrub outside the house before her family returned. Then she waited…

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