Most of these cases stem from child marriages. Fawziah Yun, a supervisor with the union, is calling for international pressure to get Yemen to ban the practice. "We want the global community to ...

For example, child marriage rates have risen in war-ravaged Yemen, one of the few countries in the world without a legal minimum age for marriage. Now more than two-thirds of Yemen’s girls are married ...

“Today, an alarming 30% of girls in Yemen are forced into marriage before the age of 18 as families struggle to provide for ...