The 54-page report, “‘How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?’: Child Marriage in Yemen,” documents the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry young. Yemeni girls and ...

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 ...

Consequently, several civic and humanitarian organizations have reported dangerous practices against women, such as the increase in child marriages in Yemen, one that is driven by the political ...

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 ...

In Yemen, Khaled Abughanem reportedly wanted ... a nonprofit organization that helps women and girls escape forced marriages and child marriages. The fiancé explained that he last saw her when ...

However, the court later dropped the kidnapping charge, convicting the man only of rape and sentencing him to 15 years in ...

Abughanem said his daughter willingly accompanied the family to the Middle East for the marriages ... was born in Yemen and grew up there until she moved to Lackawanna as a child with her family.