Nada Al-Ahdal, 11, speaks out against her arranged marriage
An 11-year-old Yemeni girl, Nada Al-Ahdal, has drawn the world's attention to the issue of child brides. She denounced her arranged marriage in an impassioned video online.
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In the video, first posted on LiveLeak, she declared: "I am not an item for sale. I'm a human being, and I would rather die than get married at this age."
She tells the camera how she ran away to her uncle's house to escape a marriage to an older man that her family had arranged for money.
The report came from SBS News, which linked it to related stories: a Yemeni girl speaking out over forced marriage, an outcry over child marriages in Malaysia, and South African girls kidnapped to become child brides.