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Afghanistan Women choose death over marriage James Astill in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 September 2011] "Every minute
of every day, she was fetching water, growing crops, looking after animals
and children, cleaning the house. She was patient, but it was too much for
her: she was educated and sensitive. She found it hard to live like a
slave." She was not alone
in her suffering, nor in the agonising way she chose to die. Anecdotal evidence suggests several
hundred young women are burning themselves to death in western Choosing Death by Fire Over Marriage -
Forced Marriages Are Driving Some Women to Self-Immolation Leela Jacinto, ABC News,
Dec. 11 abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79767&page=1 [accessed 21 January 2011] The abduction came
as a complete surprise to Miah, a London-based community youth activist who
had been dating Shipa for several years. Shipa's family had earlier accepted a marriage proposal
put forth in the "correct way" by Miah's family, and the young
Briton was unaware that her parents had no intention of actually allowing
their daughter to marry a man of her choice. On the morning of
Oct. 12, 1995, Shipa was whisked to a cousin's
place near China Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61605.htm [accessed 7 February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Some experts suggested that the demand for abducted women was fueled by the
shortage of marriageable brides, especially in rural areas. The serious
imbalance in the male-female sex ratio at birth, the tendency for many
village women to leave rural areas to seek employment, and the cost of
traditional betrothal gifts all made purchasing a bride attractive to some
poor rural men. Some men recruited brides from poorer regions, while others
sought help from criminal gangs. Criminal gangs either kidnapped women and
girls or tricked them with promises of jobs and higher living standards, only
to be transported far from their homes for delivery to buyers. Once in their
new "family," these women were "married" and raped. Some
accepted their fate and joined the new community; others struggled and were
punished; a few escaped. The bride was 7 - In the heart of Paul Salopek, Tribune
foreign correspondent, Chicago Tribune, December 12, 2004 articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-12-12/news/0412120360_1_child-marriage-beetles-wishful [accessed 17 April 2012] Tihun Nebiyu the goat herder doesn't want to marry. She is
adamant about this. But in her village nobody heeds the opinions of
headstrong little girls. That's why
she's kneeling in the filigreed shade of her favorite thorn tree, dropping
beetles down her dress. Magic beetles. "It doesn't
work!" Tihun says, disgusted. She heaves an
exaggerated sigh and squints out across the yellow-grass hills surrounding
her world: "I will just have to run." But this is childish bluster. Tihun's short legs can't carry her away fast enough from
the death of her childhood. Her wedding is five days away. And she is 7 years
old. But child marriage
ruins lives in other ways too. Often treated like indentured servants, young
brides are subject to beatings by their grown husbands and in-laws. And
thousands of girls end up trapped in the sex trade, whether through organized
child bride trafficking rings in countries such as China or, in Africa, by
simply drifting from abusive marriages into street prostitution, social
workers say. Ethiopia
& Nigeria WANTED: the right to refuse Maggie Black, Issue 337, New
Internationalist, August 2001 www.newint.org/features/2001/08/05/wanted/ [accessed 4 February 2011] Take a look at
article one of the Supplementary Convention on Slavery and you will see as
one definition: ‘Any practice whereby a woman, without the right to refuse,
is given in marriage in payment of a consideration in money or in kind ...’ At the beginning of
the 21st century being a child wife, even if it’s illegal, puts you in a
limbo. You are invisible as either child or woman, because you have been married.
What a man does to you once, if you are underage and single, is statutory
rape. What he does to you night after night, if you are underage and married,
is fine. In rural How about a story?
Just one, about Hauwa Abukar,
a Nigerian girl who died aged 12. Her family had married her to an older man to
whom they owed money. She was unhappy and kept running away, but because of
the debt her parents were obliged to return her. Finally, her husband chopped
off her legs with an axe to prevent her absconding again. She died from
starvation, shock and loss of blood. No legal action was taken. Georgia Sad Plight of Underage Brides Ramilya Alieva,
Institute for Womens Policy Research IWPR,
2005/06/02 www.kvali.com/kvali/index.asp?obiektivi=show&n=401 [accessed 6 February 2011] iwpr.net/global-voices/georgia-sad-plight-underage-brides-0 [accessed 29 January 2018] I do not want to
get married. I want to continue my studies and become a doctor," said Sevil Allazkyzy. Small and fragile
with a childlike body, Sevil is only 11 years old,
and all her grades are excellent. She is the best student in the seventh form
of the school in the Petr Lom, Frontline World, March 2004 www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/kyrgyzstan/thestory.html [accessed 17 February 2011] When the bride does
arrive, she is dragged into the groom's house, struggling and crying. Her
name is Norkuz, and it turns out she has been
kidnapped from her home about a mile away. As the women of the
groom's family surround Norkuz and hold down both
of her hands, they are at once forceful and comforting, informing her that
they, too, were kidnapped. The kidnappers insist that they negotiated the
abduction with Norkuz's brother, but her sister, a
lawyer from Pakistan Forced Marriage - Pakistanis Order
Betrothal of 2-Year-Old Khalid Tanveer,
Associated Press AP, Multan, Pakistan, Feb 21, 2005 www.nbcnews.com/id/7007895/ns/world_news/t/two-year-old-betrothed-man-pakistan/#.U_Olb6NuVCM [accessed 19 August 2014] A tribal council in
Pakistan has ordered the betrothal of a 2-year-old girl to a man 40 years
older to punish her uncle for an alleged affair with the man's wife, police
said Monday. The council decreed the
girl must marry 42-year-old Mohammed Altaf, her
uncle's cousin, when she turns 18, police said. In
2002, another village council near Switzerland Charity reveals tragedy of forced marriages Adam Beaumont in www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Charity_reveals_tragedy_of_forced_marriages.html?cid=5612814 [accessed 28 December 2010] www.swissinfo.ch/blueprint/servlet/eng/charity-reveals-tragedy-of-forced-marriages/5612814 [accessed 13 August 2020] Thousands of women
trapped in forced marriages in Zimbabwe Hunger forces Zim
girls into forced marriages [Category – Forced Marriage] ZimOnline, Mutare, Zimbabwe, May 17 2006 www.mg.co.za/article/2006-05-17-hunger-forces-zim-girls-into-forced-marriages [accessed 17 January 2011] wunrn.com/2006/05/zimbabwe-girls-forced-marriages-hunger-rights/ [accessed 19 January 2020] Faced with
starvation after six years of poor harvests, Zimbabweans are resorting to
centuries-old traditions of "forced marriages", known in the local
Shona language as "kuzvarira", for
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