{"id":1325,"date":"2013-09-18T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/child-marriage-yemen-minister-wants-it-outlawed\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:06:33","slug":"child-marriage-yemen-minister-wants-it-outlawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/2013\/09\/18\/child-marriage-yemen-minister-wants-it-outlawed.html","title":{"rendered":"CHILD MARRIAGE: Yemen Minister Wants It Outlawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06OBIp65v2w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Hooria Mashhour, Yemeni minister of Human Rights, at the 2013 Humanitarian Response Plan in Dubai on January 22, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>After an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of internal injuries that she suffered on her wedding night in Yemen, the country&#8217;s human rights minister, Hooria Mashhour, said child marriage should be outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>The reports emerged last week that a girl named Rawan, from the northern Yemeni town of Haradh, died a few days after being married off to a 40-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>International scandal quickly grew, as the alleged incident has once again brought attention to the extremely controversial issue of child marriage in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Till now child marriage in Yemen is still legal.<\/p>\n<p>Against a background of the numerous claims and counterclaims, Mashhour has declared enough is enough. She told CNN that the growing anger over the sad Rawan&#8217;s case has given Yemen an opportunity to &#8220;end this practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally have (talked to) the human rights coordinator for the ministry on the ground in Haradh,&#8221; said Mashhour, &#8220;and he informed me that nearly everyone he spoke to is denying the story, but he feels strongly suspicious. We feel people may be hiding information due to fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN spoke with several locals who requested anonymity, as they feared possible reprisals. &#8220;No one is talking about this story because its an embarrassment, but this is what poverty can do to people,&#8221; said one of the residents.<\/p>\n<p>Child marriage in Yemen<\/p>\n<p>In deeply tribal and conservative Yemen, according to rights group Human Rights Watch , more than half of all young girls there are married before age 18. About 14% of girls in Yemen are married before age 15.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Yemen&#8217;s parliament passed legislation raising the minimum age of marriage to 17, but conservative parliamentarians argued the bill violated Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age of marriage, and the bill was never signed.<\/p>\n<p>Several Yemeni child bride cases have emerged that have shocked the world over the last few years. In 2008, 10-year-old Nujood Ali became an international sensation when she went to a court in Sanaa and asked for a divorce. After a highly publicized trial, her demand was met.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, a 12-year-old Yemeni bride died of internal bleeding following intercourse three days after she was married off to an older man, according to the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=06OBIp65v2w\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooria Mashhour, Yemeni minister of Human Rights, at the 2013 Humanitarian Response Plan in Dubai on January 22, 2013. After an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of internal injuries that she suffered on her wedding night in Yemen, the country&#8217;s human rights minister, Hooria Mashhour, said child marriage should be outlawed. 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