Yemen ’should stop child marriages’
Nasser Arrabyee; 23/4/08
Human rights activists and lawyers should put pressure on the government to ban marriage of young girls, said a Yemeni lawyer. Lawyer Shatha Nasser, who defended an 8-year-old girl who was divorced last week in a Yemeni court, called all civil society organisations and human rights activist to form a coalition for amending the current law which allows marriage of children under 15. “Our next step now is to do all that we can to make the minimum marriage age in Yemen 18 years,” Shatha told Gulf News. “But this cannot happen if there is no cooperation between lawyers and human right groups,” she said.
See: http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/10207689.html
Tags: Childrens Rights, Marriage, Religion, Womens Rights