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Girls In Yemen Forced to Marry Too Young Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Photo: David Swanson/IRIN Early …
Girls In Yemen Forced to Marry Too Young
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Photo: David Swanson/IRIN
Early marriage hampering country’s development, says report by Save the Children Sweden in cooperation with Gender-Development Research and Studies Center at Sanaa University, The report entitled Gender Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East, illustrates how Yemeni girls are deprived of their child rights when they are prepared for motherhood at an early age.
“It should not be allowed because it deprives a girl of enjoying her childhood.”, stated one Yemeni girl in the report.
“Such a role creates an apprehension among girls and their families that marrying is the primary goal for girls,” said the report’s research leader, Pernilla Ouis. In Yemen, conservative social values and poverty force girls to marry and become young mothers before the age of 18, said Ouis.
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“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.” - Herbert Ward
Friday, January 18th, 2008
While the bruises of the body fade in time, the scars of child abuse never fade. Children are never the same again after an abuser has entered their lives, they loose not only the innocence of childhood, but also the chance at a normal future. One cannot erase the memories of abuse, they live in conscious and the subconscious, invading every aspect of ones life. Child abuse victims are given a life sentence, forced to live in the shadows of their abusers.
Posted in Uncategorized, Blogroll, Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions Blogs, Children, Child Soldiers, Child Trafficking, Abuse, Child Labor, Homeless Children, Street Kids, Notable Quotes About Children, Child Porn and Pedophilia, Child Marriage | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Photo: David Swanson/IRIN
Early marriage hampering country’s development, says report by Save the Children Sweden in cooperation with Gender-Development Research and Studies Center at Sanaa University, The report entitled Gender Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East, illustrates how Yemeni girls are deprived of their child rights when they are prepared for motherhood at an early age.
“It should not be allowed because it deprives a girl of enjoying her childhood.”, stated one Yemeni girl in the report.
“Such a role creates an apprehension among girls and their families that marrying is the primary goal for girls,” said the report’s research leader, Pernilla Ouis. In Yemen, conservative social values and poverty force girls to marry and become young mothers before the age of 18, said Ouis.
Posted in Children, Child Marriage, Gender Inequality | No Comments »
“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.” - Herbert Ward
Friday, January 18th, 2008
While the bruises of the body fade in time, the scars of child abuse never fade. Children are never the same again after an abuser has entered their lives, they loose not only the innocence of childhood, but also the chance at a normal future. One cannot erase the memories of abuse, they live in conscious and the subconscious, invading every aspect of ones life. Child abuse victims are given a life sentence, forced to live in the shadows of their abusers.
Posted in Uncategorized, Blogroll, Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions Blogs, Children, Child Soldiers, Child Trafficking, Abuse, Child Labor, Homeless Children, Street Kids, Notable Quotes About Children, Child Porn and Pedophilia, Child Marriage | 3 Comments »
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