YEMEN: Unrest puts child marriage issue on back burner

Adel Yahya – IRIN – Tuesday, 27 December 2011(originally published  22 Dec)  DHAMAR, 22 December 2011 (IRIN) –  Poverty and unemployment, exacerbated by the current political unrest, are driving up child marriages in Dhamar Governorate and elsewhere in Yemen, says Asmaa al-Masri, a sociologist at Dhamar University. Several hundred girls in Dhamar have been forced [More]

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