Child brides: a video, with news from Yemen
This video is about child brides. Below it is news from Yemen, where a minister called for a law to end child marriage.
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A Yemeni minister seeks a law
On 13 September 2013, it was reported that a Yemeni minister was seeking a law to end child marriage. Hooria Mashhour told the BBC she believed there was more chance of progress on child marriage in Yemen than ever before.
Her words came amid an international outcry over reports that an eight-year-old girl had died of internal bleeding on the night she was married to a 40-year-old man.
Poor families marrying off underage girls for money remains common in Yemen.