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The Globe and Mail has posted Behind the Veil: An Intimate Journey Into the Lives of Kandahar’s Women, an outstanding multi-part interactive series by photojournalist Paula Lerner and reporter Jessica Leeder chronicling the lives of women in Kandahar, one of Afghanistan’s most conservative, volatile cities.

Part 3: Child Brides Bought and sold - ‘Among us, there is no happiness or sadness in weddings. It’s just something we do’

Sakina, 18, is an internally displaced villager who says she’s been driven “insane” by the bombings, and decided to abandon her home to move to the city.

Photo credit: Paula Lerner.