The 54-page report, “‘How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?’: Child Marriage in Yemen,” documents the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry young. Yemeni girls and ...
Most of these cases stem from child marriages. Fawziah Yun, a supervisor with the union, is calling for international pressure to get Yemen to ban the practice. "We want the global community to ...
Consequently, several civic and humanitarian organizations have reported dangerous practices against women, such as the increase in child marriages in Yemen, one that is driven by the political ...
Khaled Abughanem faces kidnapping charges over what prosecutors describe as an elaborate family plot in 2021 relying on ...
For example, child marriage rates have risen in war-ravaged Yemen, one of the few countries in the world without a legal minimum age for marriage. Now more than two-thirds of Yemen’s girls are married ...
In Yemen, Khaled Abughanem reportedly wanted ... a nonprofit organization that helps women and girls escape forced marriages and child marriages. The fiancé explained that he last saw her when ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Lackawanna father and son were convicted by a federal jury of a kidnapping conspiracy after they ...
The Nizams, who were among the richest, hired well-built men from Yemen, known as Choush ... As time passed, the marriages ...
Girls as young as 10 often marry much older men in countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia. [iv] Child marriage is commonly perceived as a protective and preventative measure against ...