"How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?": Child Marriage …
2011年12月7日 · According to a nationally representative survey conducted by the Yemeni government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2006, 14 percent of girls in Yemen are married before...
Child Marriage in Yemen
Touch the timeline to see how the child marriage affect differently each sub-region of Yemen in the last decades. Levels of child marriage vary across different parts of Yemen. See the range of values within the country, and explore the map for details.
Yemen - Girls Not Brides
What drives child marriage in Yemen? What international, regional and national commitments has Yemen made? What is the government doing to address child marriage? What is the minimum legal framework around marriage? Explore child marriage data in …
Child marriage in Yemen - As Equals - CNN
2018年1月22日 · Child marriage is entrenched in Yemen, a symptom of crippling poverty and a deeply conservative culture. It's a traditional practice preserved in proverbs like, "Marry an 8-year-old girl,...
Child Marriage in Yemen: A Mixed Methods Study in Ongoing …
2021年2月2日 · In Yemen, displaced girls, especially those with longer exposure to conflict, have the highest risk of child marriage compared to boy and host girl counterparts. Economic instability is a primary factor in marriage decision-making but has a complex relationship with the effects of displacement on employment.
“How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”: Child marriage in Yemen
Child marriages are widespread in Yemen. Most girls marry before they reach 18, and in rural areas, some marry as young as eight. Yemeni girls and women are being forced into child marriages by their families, and have little chance of controlling how many children they have or when they have them.
Child Marriage in Yemen - The Borgen Project
2022年3月7日 · Child marriage in Yemen is a centuries-old human rights violation. Adults, especially those living in poverty, force young teenage girls to marry men decades older than them due to reasons such as the relief of costs in caring for a child and for the heightened protection of a husband’s family.
PREVALENCE OF CHILD MARRIAGE According to Yemen’s most recent DHS, conducted in 2013, 31.9 per cent of women aged 20-24 years were married before 18 years of age whilst 9.4 per cent were married before age 15. 11 Because the prior DHS in Ye - men occurred 16 years before, it is not advisable to use it to estimate trends in child marriage over ...
Yemen: End Child Marriage - Human Rights Watch
2013年9月11日 · (Sanaa) – Yemen should protect its girls from the devastating effects of early marriage by setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage by law, Human Rights Watch said today. The current...
Girls in Yemen struggle not only with the harmful practice of child marriage, but also with female genital mutilation (FGM). Among women aged 18–49, a third (33.2 per cent) have experienced child marriage ‘only’, while 8 per cent of all women in this age group have experienced both child marriage and FGM.3