Nada Al-Ahdal: 'I'm better off dead' – 11-year-old escapes arranged marriage (video)
Nada Al-Ahdal, an 11-year-old Yemeni girl, escaped the marriage her parents had planned for her. In this video, Cenk Uygur discusses her impassioned plea against child marriage.
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Nada broke a long-standing tradition of child marriage after she managed to run away from her parents and alert the authorities. She then gave a passionate testimony against the practice, which spread across the web like wildfire.
The video's point is simple: a practice that hands children over to adults is not right just because it is a tradition.