More than half of girls in Bangladesh marry before they are 18, exposing them to abuse. But if their husbands abandon them, it can offer a route to freedom On the northern outskirts of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, sits Duaripara, a slum that is home to more than 40,000 people. For teenage girls, life here is tough.
The country has one of the highest rates of child marriage, with more than half of Bangladeshi girls marrying before adulthood. For a documentary as part of theBBC Identity season, I met teenage brides who were married and abandoned before they were 16.

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