Yemen: Young Girls Defy Child Marriage
Posted on Yemen: Young Girls Defy Child Marriage: NY Times: Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in Yemen, by Robert F. Worth: One morning last month, Arwa Abdu Muhammad Ali walked out of her husband’s house here and ran to a local hospital, where she complained that he had been beating and sexually abusing her for eight months. That alone would be surprising in Yemen, a deeply conservative Arab society where family disputes tend to be solved privately. What made it even more unusual was that Arwa was 9 years old. Within days, Arwa — a tiny, (source)
