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It may be startling to learn that 47% Indian girls marry before they turn 18, but it’s a fact that child marriages are shamefully pursued by many sections of the Indian society. Despite government’s awareness campaign and law against...
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One can understand how ignorant clerics and tribal elders in places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen might continue to accept and promote the bestial practice of child...
made popular Oct 23 2010
Saudi Arabia has started issuing new marriage contracts that require the age of the bride to be given, in an attempt to stop underage girls from marrying.
The kingdom...
made popular Jun 3 2010
The following story is heartbreaking, and even though it actually happened, I doubt it will make any difference whatsoever in the sick minds of the parents who marry...
made popular Apr 8 2010
Divorce can be very traumatic, but so can marriage especially if you are a young child. And although divorce is always very painful, in this case it was a welcome act....
made popular Mar 31 2010
Saudi Arabia has a serious child-marriage problem.
It’s emblematic of the nation’s struggle between modernity and traditional Islam. But the lives of thousands of...
made popular Mar 17 2010
The on and off again marriage of a 12-year-old Saudi Arabian girl to an 80 year-old codger, cousin of her father, is back in the spotlight as human rights lawyers take...
made popular Feb 10 2010
Senior Saudi cleric Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Abikan has issued a fatwa banning Saudi citizens from marrying women who are not residents of the kingdom without obtaining...
made popular Jan 11 2010
Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her relatives’ heads. Then the bride-to-be, a little girl playing in the dirt in this impoverished...
made popular Nov 13 2009
The first time Tadu Gelana’s mother suggested she get married, Tadu thought she was kidding. Only 14 years old, Tadu had not yet finished school or had her first...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Over the years, the government of Yemen has embarked on an awareness campaign to end the practice of young marriages, which has been deeply rooted in the rural cultures...
made popular Sep 18 2009
Girl child Fawziya Abdullah Yuossuf was married to a 24 year old farmer working in Saudi Arabia when she was just 11. Ruled by tribal traditions child marriages are...
made popular Sep 14 2009
Blame it on illiteracy or more correctly on poverty. The twelve year old rag picker in Jaipur whose only concern must have been to earn enough to satisfy her hunger on...
made popular May 2 2009
Why would a 30-plus year-old man be interested in an 8-year-old girl? What could he possibly find in common with a child of that age, a pre-pubescent who has yet to...
made popular Feb 27 2009
It happens only in India. Two minor girls aged 7 were married to two frogs from the village pond during the Harvest Festival - Pongal in a remote village in Tamil...
made popular Jan 21 2009
As per the Bureau report, The Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz al-Shiekh, the most powerful and senior cleric of Saudi Arabia said, the marriage of 10 year old girls is justified...
made popular Jan 15 2009
This is the story of Nujood Mohammad Ali, a Yemini child bride who was married against her wish, through arranged marriage to a man three times her age has been honored...
made popular Nov 14 2008
Across the Middle East, marriage is seen as a rite of passage to adulthood, and, for women particularly, is still viewed as the gateway to independence, financial...
made popular Nov 1 2008
Since most of us enjoy a city life and come from sound educated backgrounds, we rarely get to visualize the advantages of such backings as compared to a villager or...
made popular Sep 13 2008
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The average marrying age of Yemeni females is 12 to 13. They are pulled out of school, end up illiterate, forced to have children before their bodies are ready, and...
made popular Jun 29 2008
A 13-year-old girl is revolting against a hoary tradition that has crushed many a childhood in Rajasthan - child marriage.
made popular Jun 8 2008
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