Child Marriage And Rape Is Still Legal In Yemen (2013)

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The Youngest Bride (2013): The story of Nujood Ali, a young girl married off at 8 then raped and beaten by her husband, shocked the international community. But child marriage remains a legal and common practise in Yemen.

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“He sexually assaulted me on the wedding night. His mother was holding me,” remembers Nujood. Traumatised, she sought refuge from her relatives but was turned away for fear of shaming the family. With no one to rely on but herself, she took a taxi to court where a judge, outraged by her story, granted her a divorce. But Nujood was lucky in a country which does not recognise marital rape as a crime and has no minimum marriage age. A reform to introduce it was blocked last year by Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood. “Islam doesn’t specify an age for marriage. Why make a problem out of nothing?” asks one member of Yemen’s parliament. Nujood is set on fighting child marriage in Yemen when she grows up; but with an estimated half of all brides aged below 18 and many families hoping to alleviate poverty with dowries, she faces a bitter struggle.

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38 Comments
  1. MISTER GALANG says

    This peoples are fucking idiots, they ruin the entire dreams and life of those little angels with full of dreams and don’t have idea yet about life.

  2. Cliff Cruise says

    FOUR WORDS: Muslims, Muhammad, Aisha, Rape

  3. The samson says

    Crazy country hell will wait for them

  4. Tony says

    …MUSLIM MEN ARE A BUNCH OF FUCKING PERVERTS!…KILL THEM ALL!

  5. Bertana 08 says

    Похотливые уроды

  6. Bertana 08 says

    Педофилы гребанные

  7. Angnina Angpu says

    Don't you aware of hell?

  8. Ida Mae Bennett says

    In the united states he would go to prison and sexually assault in prison on a contiually basic his a child moslter.

  9. Savage town Next stop says

    Everyone is high on khat that’s why smh

  10. James Bond says

    Islam-Sharia law is cruel and brutal!

  11. Marvelous Mukuta says

    Mixed emotions right now😢💔😔😳😠🤪🤒🤕😵🤯

  12. Lanie Ellen says

    This is SICK when they can’t afford them they sell them

  13. Angela McGlasson says

    and America allow these disgusting humans into our country and everyone is shocked when they do something horrible just like the ISIS Bride!!

  14. Zuwena Mazruiy says

    11:19 I mean there is no age limit I guess he’s right but still completely wrong like getting married by choice and wen ready is one thing but I think this idiot missed the point where the girls DONT want to get get married and forced to live a certain way because of family not allah I’m Muslim to but suriosly this guy is just on something else idek like It’s really disgusting

  15. Meggan McClincey says

    Donald Trump is a nutcase, but it’s still great to be an American. What a fucked up culture. No thank you. I can’t relate to these freaky people.

  16. Radhika Sri says

    This is so so heartbreaking 😣😣

  17. Reshma Persad says

    They should have killed u and done😶

  18. Reshma Persad says

    U too as a woman and mother shame on you die a very bad🤬🤬🤬🤬

  19. Reshma Persad says

    Father like that should die 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬nasty nasty nasty nasty man

  20. julie David says

    what a sad story with a beautiful result, such a strong and brave young lady. bless you x

  21. shaveece brooks says

    Those are NOT husband's. …those are SICK EVIL child-molesting PERVERTS. (period)

  22. Goldfinger ruby says

    When they worship a "Prophet" who married a 9 year old. then it's hardly surprising that marrying these poor children is justified.

  23. Vipan Mehra says

    Sic Yemen must be abondaned by the world.

  24. Aira says

    I just want to kill that opposition speaker, he just disgusted me

  25. Kishan Singh says

    In case if u are suffering from poverty then why to have 16 children's??

  26. Kishan Singh says

    When members of yemens parliament make such abysmal statement
    That in Islam the age is not mentioned so we gonna not pass the legislation

    I would say u(member of parliament) just keep yourself in place of that girl and then make such statement
    What u will feel??

  27. asia yusuf says

    but the muslim party are wrong because allah said if they want to get married at that age but the crackheads are forcing her.

  28. Kishan Singh says

    Abysmal diabolical people 😡

  29. BUGS BUNNY says

    god must have so much patience

  30. Jules Fanaglibuw says

    It's a sign of Muslem culture..He should be in prison for life.

  31. Derrick Hammer says

    Guck dir diese ganzen Eselficker auf der Hochzeit an. Da fällt mir ein Ei aus der Tasche. Alle kauen diese Drogenscheiße, stinken wie Hulle und halten da ein Zusammentreffen der faulsten Gammler ab vom Feinsten. Nehmt mal ne Schüppe in die Hand und bewegt euch. Dan habt ihr auch Geld und müsst eure Töchter nicht verkaufen. Genau diese und noch schlimmere Asis sind es die zu uns kommen. Danke Frau Merkel.

  32. Clare Linus says

    like shit

  33. Jeanne Wambo says

    This is just disgusting! Why is sex making people do weird, crazy pieces of stuff, lose their minds! We are human beings guys, we're supposed to be intelligent, smart, wise, etc…

  34. SANJOY BARMAN says

    This is legal because this has been written on quran book. What disgusting system islam

  35. Samia Mi VS. Kulazzhell says

    I new a girl from Yemen shortly but she had convinced me at the time that the little girls had a voice and the fathers and husbands had a contract that protected the girls from not having rights or being victimized… Which I never fully believed because I have been treated like property by men before, but she believed it and it was her cultures past and her life. I wish I could hear her now, I only remember her first name as Miriam and she left her life in Yemen and ended up in long island last i knew. And I'm just wondering after all these years of maturing.. do you still feel the same??

  36. Nchen Murry says

    Real man don't buy a wife
    I am 25 and still a kid to my parents

  37. Rajo Taylor-Smith says

    Accepted and mandatory paedophilia practise perpetuated by the radical muslim brotherhood…disgusting!

  38. Peace says

    Where are her parents that must guide her in the right path and take care of her???

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