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CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on the problem of child brides in Yemen. Would you like to know more? Child bride horrors last a lifetime (CNN, Oct 1, 2010) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/10/01/yemen.child.brides/ "Reem al Numeri is 14-years-old and recently divorced. She was 11 when she says her father forced her to marry a cousin more than twice her age.

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According to the International Center for Research on Women, one in nine girls globally will be married before the age of 15.  In Yemen, many young girls lose their lives either from violent sex/rape or from complications of early pregnancy and childbirth. Many girls drop out of school when they are married young, losing their right to education and life skills.  Women in Yemen have been fighting hard to ban child marriage, and they have the support of the parliament and the president. But, the country isn’t stable enough to upset the religious leaders, who believe banning child marriage would clash with Islamic/Shariah law. Girls as young as eight are married off, and 52% of girls under the age of 18. Although the law is not passed yet, it proposes that parents who marry off their daughters before the age of 18 could face a hefty fine and the possibility of one year in jail.

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Young girls can be beaten or even killed if they refuse to be married off.

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Even girls under the age of nine can be forced to bare a child.

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Yemen is south of Saudi Arabia, bordering Oman and important Red Sea shipping routes

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Two child brides pictured with their forced husbands