The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and ADRA are presenting the film “Painful Weddings,” produced by the Seyaj Organization in 2012 with support from the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), which aims to reduce child marriage in Yemen.
The two international organizations are conducting a series of activities to educate those displaced by the armed conflict in Sa’dah Governorate, northern Yemen.
[Image link: Painful Weddings] The film was produced as part of the “My Life” project, a strategic partnership aimed at promoting children’s rights and protecting girls from early marriage and other forms of gender-based violence. The project is a partnership between the Siyaj Organization, the U.S. Department of State, the European Union, UNICEF, and the embassies of the Netherlands and Germany in Yemen.
Through the screening of this film, UNHCR and ADRA seek to raise social awareness about the consequences of child marriage and address the problem, which has grown at an alarming rate, particularly among displaced and impoverished communities.
