Cristina Moreno, 18, carries her baby at her home in Juvinani village, Metlatonoc municipality, Guerrero state, Mexico. Photos: PEDRO PARDO/ AFP
Eloina Feliciano begged her mother not to sell her into marriage aged 14 under an ancestral tradition in their indigenous community in southern Mexico, but her pleas were in vain.
"I don't want to be sold," she remembers telling her mother at their home in the mountains of Guerrero state.
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