NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters Life!) - A Yemeni child bride, who gained international renown after refusing to accept a forced marriage to a man nearly three times her age, on Monday received an award as ...
In early April, a 13-year-old girl in Yemen bled to death after being forced to have intercourse with her 23-year-old husband. More than one-quarter of girls in Yemen are married before the age of 15, ...
Story Highlights Ending young marriages an "important priority of the government," spokesman says Conservatives blocked effort in February to set minimum age for marrying at 17 Last week, 12-year-old ...
A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who bled to death shortly after marriage was tied down and forced to have sex by her husband, according to the child's mother, police and medical reports. The girl's mother, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by ...