Child bride dies due to sexual trauma

[Risottia]

Actually, looking at the map below, looks like the Harad (or Hardh) area is under Sunni control.

I highly recommend you review here.

Looks quite less detailed than the one I linked. Got something better?

[Ghuraba Al-Khorusani]

This particular province has old ties to Houthis.

This Yemeni practice has been going on for quite some time. Is being under Sunni or Shia control relevant?

Honestly I'm just trying to bash Houthis not Zaidis.

[Risottia]

This Yemeni practice has been going on for quite some time. Is being under Sunni or Shia control relevant?

Honestly I'm just trying to bash Houthis not Zaidis.

Yeah, I got that bashing Houthis is your only purpose here. Don't let facts get in the way of your ideology.

[Ghuraba Al-Khorusani]

I highly recommend you review here.

Looks quite less detailed than the one I linked. Got something better?

Green area is The Houthis

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

This Yemeni practice has been going on for quite some time. Is being under Sunni or Shia control relevant?

Honestly I'm just trying to bash Houthis not Zaidis.

Then you're not really focusing on the main issue here. Yemen has blocked countless attempts to protect girls by raising the minimum age for marriage to 18 years of age. The Yemeni legal system says that such an attempt is un-Islamic, which covers both Shia and Sunni. I think that as much as freedom of religion is paramount, so is protecting children from abuse. Marrying an 8 year old to a man 5x her age is abusive. This applies to all Muslim people, whether Shia or Sunni, in Yemen and other places, who approve of child marriage.

Your attempt at bashing one group over the other is rather irrelevant to the main problem.

[Risottia]

Looks quite less detailed than the one I linked. Got something better?

Green area is The Houthis

Which is the one I posted.
Which highlights the area around Harad (or Hardh) in RED.

So?

[Prussia-Steinbach]

Disgusting. This shit makes me so angry. Guys like this get off scot-free in places like Arabia and Yemen, while they chop the heads off of kids with political opinions outside the mainstream. Shit's fucked.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

Honestly I'm just trying to bash Houthis not Zaidis.

Yeah, I got that bashing Houthis is your only purpose here. Don't let facts get in the way of your ideology.

You know as well as I do, Risottia, that this is not what we'd call a frequent problem in NSG.

[Ghuraba Al-Khorusani]

Green area is The Houthis

Which is the one I posted.
Which highlights the area around Harad (or Hardh) in RED.

So?

The city is in government control but the province is under Houthi control.

[Risottia]

Yeah, I got that bashing Houthis is your only purpose here. Don't let facts get in the way of your ideology.

You know as well as I do, Risottia, that this is not what we'd call a frequent problem in NSG.

Yep.

Oh well, I'll be letting sleep get in the way of my ideology quite soon anyway.

[Kaboomlandia]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

[Ghuraba Al-Khorusani]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

The Houthi rebellion has been going on long before 2013.

[The Wolven League]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

The Houthi rebellion has been going on long before 2013.

He's not talking about the Houthis.

And the Houthis aren't even relevant here. Who gives a damn if Shias or Sunnis control a strip of tribal wasteland? It wouldn't stop child marriages there.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

The Houthi rebellion has been going on long before 2013.

The Houthi are not the topic of this thread.

[Jochistan]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

Are you honestly saying you don't think this shit still goes on.

[AiliailiA]

It's nice to know that pedophilia is an important part of Islam.

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Broken link. Perhaps religious freedom coalition don't like hotlinking?

[AiliailiA]

Uh...The timestamp on that article...let me see now...September 2013.

That's reason to change the thread title (so it's not presented as news). Or the OP could just add more examples.

[The Alexanderians]

WHAT, is that title?

Of course I mean the story it's detailing.

[The TransPecos]

Again, let's use the language of the article being discussed.

"existing issue of forced child marriages in the Middle East."

Sure, the word "child" can be a subjective one. But not an 8-year old. That's a child in anyone's definition. I hope.

So, "child marriages in the Middle East". Are you saying the entire Middle Eastern culture is "subhuman" because of the occasional child marriage?

It's not like in literally every Middle Eastern nation you have every child married to a 50-year old man. Such instances occur, yes, and it's revolting, but you can't call an entire culture "subhuman" for that.

Regrettably you can since, as the op points out, it is a frequent and widespread occurrence. Why was the Yemen law repealed as "un-Islamic"? Because that is a widespread 'religion' in the area and the senior leaders of that 'religion' do not condemn such behaviour and often in fact support interpretations of the Koran that allow it. Wake up and recognize the real world out there.

[New Benian Republic]

Well it is sad too bad the UN is a waste of organization and won't do anything about this probably.

[Remonetise]

The fact that the child died from the sexual trauma taking place in the marriage is rather a testament on its own to the people responsible for repealing a law that defined a child as under 17 as to why this is a terrible idea at all.

[Len Hyet]

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/yemen-child-marriage-human-rights-519066#.VptsKDMY0po.facebook

An eight year-old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma. Human rights organizations are calling for the arrest of her husband, who was five times her age.

Al Nahar, Lebanon, reported that the death occurred in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. This brings even more attention to the already existing issue of forced child marriages in the Middle East.

"According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides. Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before the age of 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15."

It is reported that over a quarter of Yemen's young girls are married before the age of 15. Not only do they lose access to health and education, these child brides are commonly subjected to physical, emotional and sexual violence in their forced marriages.

One of the main issues is that there is currently no consistent established definition of a "child" that has been agreed upon worldwide. This leaves various interpretations within countries and little protection for those who are affected.

Establishing this age limit is among the top priorities of groups like HRC which was responsible for publishing the 54-page report “How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?”, documenting the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry at young ages. Most pro age-limit organizations agree that 18 should be the legal age for marriage.

In February 2009, a law was created in Yemen that set the minimum age for marriage at 17. Unfortunately, it was repealed after more conservative lawmakers called it un-Islamic.

Personally, I find this disgusting. I'm involved with an organization fighting child prostitution in Cambodia, but child MARRIAGE? This is beyond foul. The UN should make an international standard for being legally an adult IMO. What says NSG?

Having sex with children is bad. News at 11.

[Hindia Belanda]

This makes me so furious. I have no words for this.

[Tolko Temnota]

This makes me so furious. I have no words for this.

Well better delete your post then, as I'm afraid to say it has words in it.

[Wisconsin9]

Despicable.