In Yemen, conservative politicians want to force that child marriages are still possible. They condemn the law against child marriage as a plot that their culture "westernized" is.
As a two year old she was promised a 30-year old man with nine there was a wedding photo, and at eleven she was raped by her first husband. The wedding of the young Yemeni girl was a deal because his father wanted to marry the sister of the future husband - but without paying the obligatory bridal money.
A similar fate is shared by many minors in Yemen. Although there have been recent a minimum age of marriage. Conservative But deputies do, referring to the Koran to force that child marriages are still possible.
More than a quarter of all girls in Yemen to be married, according to a study by the Ministry of Social Affairs before they are 15 years old. Made headlines two years ago, the eight-year Nujud Nasser, the only rode courageously to court the annulment of their marriage. After the decision, the deputies involved in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, with the problem. In February, a law was passed, which sets a minimum age for marriage of 17 years.
Several Members, however, criticize the regime as un-Islamic. Even before it was signed by the President, they forced a renewed Review by the Constitutional Committee. The law was "a Western plot to get our westernized culture," the outraged members of the Sheikh Mohammed al Hazmi.
"One day, he has captivated me and attacked me," says the girl who was raped as eleven, for the first time by her husband. Her husband had indeed promised to not touch his wife until puberty. After she moved in with him, he reported to her but she abruptly to the bed, her stuffed a cloth in his mouth to stifle her cries - and took advantage of her.
After the death of his father the little girl was in an orphanage, they should there remain a number of years. Her brother, however, it lured under false pretenses into the house of her husband tells her now 13-year-old. He had promised to jointly apply to court an annulment of the marriage. Instead, he took her to the house of the man who had bribed him with rund150 €. Nine months later, her husband forced her to have sex.
Until the 1990s children had to be married in Yemen after the age of 15 years. Then, the Parliament decided, however, the parents should decide when their daughters go into the marriage.
Deputy Al Hazmi said that Islam explicitly permits child marriage. Neither the Koran nor in the traditional statements of the Prophet Muhammad was the talk of a ban, he argued. "Everything that is not forbidden is allowed."
His colleague Sheikh al Schauki Kadhi sees it differently: It refers to Islamic law, which also allowed may be banned if someone is suffering this done. An explicit prohibition would not work, says Al Kadhi: "Should we set up about a policeman in every bedroom to ensure that men do not consummate the marriage before the girls are sexually mature?"
The 13-year old girl forcibly married again now lives in an orphanage in Sanaa. Health problems, the man had the girl for the treatment in the capital sent where they could escape. Meanwhile she is learning to read and write, and is concerned about their future. "I want to be business woman," she said shyly.
Source: 'Stop with the German cowardice " Bönnigheim newspaper
A similar fate is shared by many minors in Yemen. Although there have been recent a minimum age of marriage. Conservative But deputies do, referring to the Koran to force that child marriages are still possible.
More than a quarter of all girls in Yemen to be married, according to a study by the Ministry of Social Affairs before they are 15 years old. Made headlines two years ago, the eight-year Nujud Nasser, the only rode courageously to court the annulment of their marriage. After the decision, the deputies involved in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, with the problem. In February, a law was passed, which sets a minimum age for marriage of 17 years.
Several Members, however, criticize the regime as un-Islamic. Even before it was signed by the President, they forced a renewed Review by the Constitutional Committee. The law was "a Western plot to get our westernized culture," the outraged members of the Sheikh Mohammed al Hazmi.
"One day, he has captivated me and attacked me," says the girl who was raped as eleven, for the first time by her husband. Her husband had indeed promised to not touch his wife until puberty. After she moved in with him, he reported to her but she abruptly to the bed, her stuffed a cloth in his mouth to stifle her cries - and took advantage of her.
After the death of his father the little girl was in an orphanage, they should there remain a number of years. Her brother, however, it lured under false pretenses into the house of her husband tells her now 13-year-old. He had promised to jointly apply to court an annulment of the marriage. Instead, he took her to the house of the man who had bribed him with rund150 €. Nine months later, her husband forced her to have sex.
Until the 1990s children had to be married in Yemen after the age of 15 years. Then, the Parliament decided, however, the parents should decide when their daughters go into the marriage.
Deputy Al Hazmi said that Islam explicitly permits child marriage. Neither the Koran nor in the traditional statements of the Prophet Muhammad was the talk of a ban, he argued. "Everything that is not forbidden is allowed."
His colleague Sheikh al Schauki Kadhi sees it differently: It refers to Islamic law, which also allowed may be banned if someone is suffering this done. An explicit prohibition would not work, says Al Kadhi: "Should we set up about a policeman in every bedroom to ensure that men do not consummate the marriage before the girls are sexually mature?"
The 13-year old girl forcibly married again now lives in an orphanage in Sanaa. Health problems, the man had the girl for the treatment in the capital sent where they could escape. Meanwhile she is learning to read and write, and is concerned about their future. "I want to be business woman," she said shyly.
Source: 'Stop with the German cowardice " Bönnigheim newspaper
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