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- Yemeni child bride gets divorce.
BBC News, 16 April 2008.
A Yemeni court has annulled an eight-year-old girl's marriage to a man in his 20s, after she filed for divorce.
- Poverty causing early marriages in Yemen.
Middle East Online, 29 March 2008. Extreme poverty forces families to marry off daughters to alleviate financial burdens, expenses on education.
- Combating Female Genital Mutilation: What is the role of health policy? Yemen Times, 11 September 2007.
Female Genital Mutilation has since many decades been considered as a major challenge for human rights and women activists.
- Street children at increased risk of sexual abuse.
IRIN News, 25 June 2007.
Selling newspapers along the hot and busy streets of Sanaa, Naif al-Ghuzzy, 11, wants nothing more than to help his family.
- Female genital mutilation: ritual or worship?.
The Yemen Times, 12 June 2007. At a wedding party in one coastal area, a Yemeni bride was carried to her husband’s home in a traditional procession.
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