A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said. Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San'a. Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, where tribal customs dominate society. More than a quarter of the country's females marry before age 15, according to a recent report by the Social Affairs Ministry. Youssef was only 11 when her father married her to a 24-year-old man who works as a farmer in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed al-Quraishi, chairman of Siyaj human rights organisation, said. Mr al-Quraishi, whose group promotes child rights in Yemen, said that he stumbled upon Youssef in the hospital while investigating cases of children who had fled from the fighting in the north. "This is one of many cases that exist in Yemen," said Mr al-Quraishi. "The reason behind it is the lack of education and awareness, forcing many girls into marriage in this very early age." Impoverished parents in Yemen sometimes give away their young daughters in return for hefty dowries. There is also a long-standing tribal custom in which infant daughters and sons are promised to cousins in hopes it will protect them from illicit relationships, he said.
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17 views and no comment , i guess it s normal since paedophelia is permitted in most arabe muslim countries using the excuse of religion to rape these children
12 years old girl is considered old in comparaison with the 6 and 7 years
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marocain-09, what can you expect : are you waiting for 7ninboy/pearlshittyview to condamn such tragedy? you must be dreaming , it s the beardies fantasy to marry a little girl and in case of her death from severe bleeding they say she is a martyr direct to heaven their perversion is considered martydom according to the terrorist dictionaries
an adult who gets turned on by a little girl : is PAEDOPHILE A CRIMINAL hiding under the so called marriage does not justify that this person feels pleasure raping a little girl
a moroccan imam who encourages marrying little girls is a paedophile
all these religious people married to little girls or market for this type of marriages or force their children to marry their friends are paedophiles their beards do not fool anyone
shame on them the only place for them is to be locked up for life far from children and civilisation
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