Campaign against early marriage in Yemen [Archives:2005/907/Local News]

SANA'A, Dec.28 ) A special workshop was organized to discuss the results of a study on early marriage last Tuesday.

The workshop was organized by Oxfam-GB in partnership with the Gender and Development Research Center of Sana'a University and was based on a study conducted earlier this year by a number of researchers and supervised by Oxfam-GB Yemen Program. The workshop was held in Dhamar where 50 of the academics, researchers and those who are interested in Dhamar University participated. The study included Hudaydah, Coastal Hadramout, Hadramout valley and Sana'a. It tackled the social system, poverty, early marriage, and its link with development, psychological health and psychological health. It also tackled the relation between early marriage and human rights, in addition to the role of awareness and its mechanisms.

The researchers and academics in the governorate confirmed that they would carry on a campaign to fight early marriage because of its negative economic and social impacts. Emphasizing the importance of total participation of stakeholders and to adopt a human rights approach in this campaign through combating violence and discrimination against women.
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