Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
it was a story I did about it a little yemenese girl
or you many russians say not a of taro
ashis 11-year-old girl we ran the video of her
and she said that she had up
run away from her parents a god or uncle cuz they wanna marry her off
a to a husband and it turns out not too different human rights groups
say on chechnya many women union um
have looked into the story and they say the parts a bit are false
and in fact the parents were not going to marry her off they did get an offer
for
america is 11 years old which is insane right now but
but they had refused that offer and in it turns out and this is where it gets a
little sketchy
that the person who recorded uploaded the video in the first place is the odd
abdul-jabbar
who runs a children's show called me too much all Medina
and that she often appears on that show so
was this like a publicity stunt or something it's unclear
but obviously it makes people uncomfortable because it's possible
ride it was something along those lines now the stadium offer for her the past
it rejected
she's now back with her parents so I'm see some parts in the store were true
she was not with her parents for a while now she is back with her parents
up but I want everybody to know that the
that the it was not the parents fault and and these two
very reputable I human rights groups have looked into it and have concluded
that
but nonetheless its an enormous problem in Yemen in other places and I so wanna
give you some quick numbers on that
and a in between 2002 and 2011
11 percent of the many children were married by the age of 15
such as they me so nauseous 11 percent that's not a small number
before they just 15 okay forty-eight percent very many children
are married before they just eighty and in 41 countries not just the prom in
Yemen forty-one countries
30 percent a woman I married or entered into Union
by the Govt so this obviously a worldwide problem
that israel now in this case it might not have applied to her
and hurt with this but especially what her parents did
right are but it does apply to a lot of people in Yemen and that's why so many
the news agencies
%ah believe that the story was true