12-Year-Old Yemeni Child Dies During Child Birth
Born to impoverished parents, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school when she was married off to a man twice her age, al-Qureshi said.
While child bride are commonplace in Yemen, the city from which Fawziya came, Hodeidah young girls are given up for marriage as a tribal custom in alarming numbers. More than half of young Yemeni girls are force to marry before the age of 18, often times to much older men.
The young girls death comes at time when a 10-year-old girl from Yemen, Nujood Ali, was married to man who beat and raped her shortly after the marriage ceremony.
In February, the Yemeni parliament tried to to set a minimum age of 17 to marry, but the notion was rejected by parliamentarians who believe the proposal violated Islamic law, which requires no age limit.
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Born to impoverished parents, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school when she was married off to a man twice her age, al-Qureshi said.
While child bride are commonplace in Yemen, the city from which Fawziya came, Hodeidah young girls are given up for marriage as a tribal custom in alarming numbers. More than half of young Yemeni girls are force to marry before the age of 18, often times to much older men.
The young girls death comes at time when a 10-year-old girl from Yemen, Nujood Ali, was married to man who beat and raped her shortly after the marriage ceremony.
In February, the Yemeni parliament tried to to set a minimum age of 17 to marry, but the notion was rejected by parliamentarians who believe the proposal violated Islamic law, which requires no age limit.
http://hiphopwired.com/9381/12-year-old-yemeni-child-dies-during-child-birth/