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Meghna (10) works as a domestic helper in Dhaka and was not registered at birth. No law enforcing agency can stop Meghna from doing her present job. Her parents would insist that she is 18, and there is no document to prove them wrong.
Shamsuddin Ahmed/IRIN

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