Yemen

Secondary education can reduce child marriage by 66%: UNICEF – Down To Earth
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Secondary education can reduce child marriage by 66%: UNICEF – Down To Earth

Secondary education stronger, more consistent protection against child marriage than primary school education Two of every three child marriages would be stopped in the world only if all girls could complete secondary school, a new UNICEf report claimed. The numbers would fall 80 per cent if all girls continued on to higher education, the report mentioned….

India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report
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India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report

As per the categorisations by the United Nations for Human Rights (UNHR), although modern slavery is not defined by law, it is used as an umbrella term to cover practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, human trafficking, sale of children, sexual slavery, and so on. Studying the prevalence of modern slavery globally,…

Is Iran Committing Crimes Against Humanity? On Organ Harvesting and Selling Babies for Parts
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Is Iran Committing Crimes Against Humanity? On Organ Harvesting and Selling Babies for Parts

According to rights activists and media reports Iran’s high-ranking officials – among whom, IRGC Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, and President of the Supreme Disciplinary Court for Judges, Hossein-Ali Nayeri, architected a tentacular organ harvesting and trafficking network, which, it has been alleged, has bullied young mothers to abandon their newborns, for a…

Mo Farah's Documentary Spotlights U.K.'s Migration Policy – The New York Times
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Mo Farah's Documentary Spotlights U.K.'s Migration Policy – The New York Times

Experts hope the running star’s revelations will humanize migrants’ struggles, but they don’t expect policy changes in a country that is trying to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. LONDON — The harrowing revelation by Mo Farah, the Olympic track and field star, that he was trafficked to Britain as a young child has reverberated…

Child marriage rises among Yemen's girls and boys over seven-year war | The Independent
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Child marriage rises among Yemen's girls and boys over seven-year war | The Independent

‘My brother married me off for the money’: Child marriage rises in Yemen during war When Fatimah Ali’s father stopped her from attending school she became withdrawn. Aged 13, he married her to a 17-year-old man unknown to her, in 2019. A family member speaking to The Independent on condition of anonymity from Dar Al-Sha’ab…

Human Rights Violations Against Migrants in Yemen Increase Amid Soaring Arrivals: IOM Warns
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Human Rights Violations Against Migrants in Yemen Increase Amid Soaring Arrivals: IOM Warns

Aden – At least 27,800 people have crossed from the Horn of Africa to war-torn Yemen in the first five months of 2022, more than the total who made the journey all of last year along what was the world’s busiest maritime migration route prior to COVID-19, according to the International Organization for Migration’s (OIM)…