AZERBAIJAN, Lerik. 2018. People dance around Terane Sahverdiyeva, 17 during her henna ceremony in Zarikumecu village. Talysh people gather for henna night a day before the wedding ceremony.

To be a woman in Azerbaijan is above all to be a wife and a mother. Out of the capital in Baku, once girls reach sexual maturity, parents must wait for marriage proposals. The priority for a woman in rural areas is to marry young because she will have no alternative but to stay with her parents.

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