Hi, podmates! Because we want you to learn about new podcasts from the wonderful people of GMA News and Public Affairs Digital, check out this timely special report on child brides and the lifelong tragedies of this practice. On January 6, 2021, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill that will end child marriage in the Philippines, or the Republic Act 11596.

"Child Bride Tragedies" is produced by Mikkel Bolante and Consuelo Marquez and narrated by Ria Garcia and Mikkel Bolante.

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In the Philippines, thousands of girls each year are forced to marry, often in an effort to escape poverty. But their stories tell of even greater tragedies for these child brides.

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