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Child Bride

12-Year-Old Girl Dies While Giving Birth In Yemen

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Girls, Child Bride, Women's Rights, Sexual Violence, Sexual Health, Islam, Yemen, Children's Rights, Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Women's Health, Underage Marriage, Childhood, World News

SAN'A, Yemen — A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization s...

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India's Child Bride TV Sensation Aims To Change An Ancient Tradition

Global Post | Jason Overdorf | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: India, Rajasthan, New Delhi, Child Bride, Color, India Color, Child Marriage, India Child Marriage, Balika Vadhu, World News

NEW DELHI -- Defying all the conventional wisdom about Indian television viewers -- notorious for dogged allegiance to campy soap operas that pitted...

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Yemen Islamists Fight Law Banning Child Marriage

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Yemen, Islamists, Islam, Child Marriage, Child Bride, Yemen Child Marriage, Yemen Child Brides, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, World News

SAN'A, Yemen — She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the ma...

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Nujood Ali: Yemen Blocks Ex-Child Bride's Trip To Austria

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Women's World Awards, Austria, Yemen, Nujood Ali, Yemen Former Child Bride, Yemen Child Bride, Child Bride, Yemen Child Bride Austria, World News

VIENNA — Yemen has barred a former child bride from being honored in Austria, saying she is too young to travel alone. When she was less than 1...

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