Early and forced marriage in Yemen: married in the fifth grade
This video, from July 2019, looks at the culture of early and forced marriage in Yemen.
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Yemeni government and United Nations data from 2006 show that about 14 percent of girls in Yemen are married before the age of 15, and 52 percent before the age of 18.
One child bride, who married at 13, told Human Rights Watch: "I thought marriage was just a wedding, a party, and that was it."