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In: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Edited by: Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster & Jane E. Sloan
Subject:Women's Studies, Women in Management, Sociology of Gender

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Ten years old and divorced: like many Yemeni girls, 10-year-old Nojoud Ali was forced into an arranged marriage, but unlike most, she refused to stay in the marriage.

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This little girl’s smile hides a painful past. Nojoud is just 10 and she’s already divorced. In her home country, Yemen, she was forced to marry a man three times her age, and for two months endured beatings and rape.My life had completely changed. I could no longer go to school or learn things. I wasn’t allowed to visit my family. That’s why I went to the tribunal.With the help of a lawyer and three judges in the Yemeni Capital, Sana’a, Nojoud was granted her wish: a divorce. Her story ...

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  Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., & Sloan, J. E. (2011). Yemen. In Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 1600-1601). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n936
  
  Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., & Sloan, J. E. (2011). Yemen. In Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 1600-1601). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n936
  
  Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., & Sloan, J. E. (2011). Yemen. In Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 1600-1601). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n936
  
  Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., & Sloan, J. E. (2011). Yemen. In Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 1600-1601). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n936
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