Cenk Uygur - Runaway Bride

My daughter shared with me this story from The Young Turks concerning a young girl who ran away from her Yemense home as her parents were giving her to another man to marry. The practice of child brides in many countries of the world is problematic. In Nigeria, children as young as two are given over as brides. Child advocates have appealed to the United Nations seeking intervention to abolish this practice. The practice clearly violates the UN Charter on the rights of the child and is a human rights issue.


Thanks Cenk for bringing this story into wider circulation.