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The Fight Against Child Marriage
Say'ūn :: Yemen | over 2 years ago
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Everyone towered above her and paid no attention to her until a judge asked the young girl why she was there...Female attorney Shada Nasser took Nujood's case and others like it. Today, thanks to Shada's work, girls across Yemen have been given their
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Tragedy Shines Light On Plight Of Yemeni Child Brides
Sanaa :: Yemen | 3 years ago
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In early April, a 13-year-old girl in Yemen bled to death after being forced to have intercourse with her 23-year-old husband. More than one-quarter of girls in Yemen are married before the age of 15, according to a 2009 study by the government's
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Child bride dies of internal bleeding
Sanaa :: Yemen | 3 years ago
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Her death is "a painful reminder of the risks girls face when they are married too soon," Kaag said...The death is the latest in a series of child marriage cases in Yemen, where the minimum age to tie the knot is still under debate. In September, a
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Child bride passes away days after her wedding
Sanaa :: Yemen | 3 years ago
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A child bride passed away as result of severe bleeding from a tear in her womb last Tuesday in Hajjah hospital. The 12-year-old Elham Mahdi Shoai passed away in the hospital just three days following her wedding after she was brutally sexually
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Book review: 'Yemen' by Victoria Clark and 'I Am Nujood, Aged 10 and Divorced' by Nujood Ali
Aden :: Yemen | 3 years ago
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The attempt by underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a fully loaded American airplane on Christmas Day 2009 thrust Yemen into the international spotlight. The would-be bomber had attended training camps in Yemen and received
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Oppositionists sentenced to jail
Sanaa :: Yemen | 3 years ago
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Former Yemeni parliament member and leader of the southern secessionist movement, Ahmed Bamualem, received a ten year jail sentence after his detention in April...Ali Mohammed al-Saadi who is also active in the movement, received 15-month sentence.
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'I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced' by Nujood Ali
Sanaa :: Yemen | over 3 years ago
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Books Editor When Nujood Ali was married in her native Yemen, the legal age of consent for marriage was 15, but her father made a deal to marry her off to a man three times her age...There�s an old tribal proverb in Yemen: �To guarantee a happy
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Child Brides in Yemen Seek Legal Protection
Sanaa :: Yemen | over 3 years ago
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In many parts of Yemen, it is customary to marry girls as young as 10-years old. About a year ago, a bill was introduced to the country's parliament that would set the minimum age for marriage at 17. But it continues to languish in committees after
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Child divorce
London :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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As the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones heard when he met Nujood and her parents in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, she took her fate into her own hands, getting the divorce herself. She had not even known she was to be married on the day of her wedding. With her
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