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 ...
The story of Nuha Hayder shed the light on the issue of child marriages in Yemen due to an ongoing civil war and the deteriorating living conditions which are leading to famine and severe hunger.
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 ...