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The Siyaj Organization for Child Protection appeals to the security and judicial authorities in Dhamar Governorate to expedite the referral of the father of ten-year-old Saud Yahya Muhammad and her sixty-year-old husband to trial and to annul her marriage contract, as she was forced into the marriage and her consent to it is not consideredContinue reading “A young girl attempts suicide to escape being married to a 60-year-old man, and a fence demands a ban on marriage.”
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Members of the “Women’s Committees for the Protection of Young Girls from Early Marriage” at the Siyaj Organization called for the necessity and importance of raising awareness, training, and involving local communities, especially women, in the preventive and subsequent protection of victims of early marriage. Participants in a meeting held today in Sana’a by theContinue reading “With support from the Dutch Embassy: Siyaj trains women’s committees to reduce child marriage”
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The Seyaj Organization concluded today its training program on reducing child marriage for 100 marriage registrars and 60 lawyers (both male and female) from the governorates of Sana’a, Ibb, Hodeidah, and Hajjah. The program focused on monitoring, reporting, and providing legal protection to victims in the absence of national legislation criminalizing such practices. Seyaj hadContinue reading “Siyaj trained 160 contract editors and lawyers to reduce child marriage.”
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A Saudi cleric has asserted that there is no justification for marrying underage girls, even though the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) married Aisha when she was nine years old. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Manea, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, made these remarks in an interview published in the Okaz newspaper on Thursday,Continue reading “A Saudi religious scholar asserts that nothing justifies marriage to underage girls.”
