Child Marriage

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• Lake Chad region: Why are world powers unable to stop Boko Haram?
  13 April 2016, by siawi3

  UNICEF released a report yesterday. showing that the number of children involved in suicide bombing has risen tenfold in the last year in the Lake Chad region, which includes Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. One in every five suicide bombings is perpetrated by a child. Three-quarters of them are girls as young as eight years old. They are victims of slavery and rape. Military forces in all four countries have made gains, liberating areas and people, but the abductions continue. After the 2014 abduction, over 2,000 women and girls have been abducted since then in about four countries, not just Nigeria." Among children who have been freed, some are ostracized, others killed, out of fear that they might turn against their communities.

• Online outrage at Sudan death sentence for girl allegedly raped
  13 May 2018, by siawi3

  In recent years, women and children’s rights activists in Sudan have campaigned against forced unions and marriage of underage girls, a widespread phenomenon in a country where the law allows children over the age of 10 to marry.

• Amnesty fustige la peine de mort pour une adolescente victime de viol au Soudan
  11 mai 2018, par siawi3

  Noura Hussein Hammad, forcée par son père àse marier àl’âge de 16 ans, a tué son mari pour se défendre d’un nouveau viol. L’ONG réclame l’annulation de la condamnation. « Les autorités soudanaises doivent annuler cette condamnation manifestement injuste et s’assurer que Noura ait droit àun nouveau procès, équitable, qui prend en compte ces circonstances atténuantes  », demande Amnesty International.

• A Sudanese teenager killed her rapist, and Muslim women are fighting for her life
  11 May 2018, by siawi3

  Noura’s story is perhaps not unusual in a world where intimate partner violence is rife. However, there is something about Noura’s case that is indicative of a wider truth. The majority of people involved in raising awareness about this young woman’s case are other Sudanese Muslim women. The lawyers working on the case in Washington DC are members of the Sudanese diaspora, and word of the case reached me through another Sudanese writer’s Instagram and blogposts. The majority of people fighting for Noura are women, Muslim women.

• Mariée de force et violée, une jeune Soudanaise tue son époux et est condamnée àmort
  11 mai 2018, par siawi3

  Une pétition circule sur change.org pour que la jeune femme ne soit pas exécutée. A midi ce 11 mai, elle avait été signée par plus de 80 000 personnes.

• Sudan: Justice For Noura | Don’t execute Noura for self defense against the man who raped her!
  11 May 2018, by siawi3

  At 16, Noura was forcibly married off by her father. She refused.
  On Sunday, April 29, 2018, Noura was found guilty in court of premeditated murder, the punishment for which is death by hanging.

• Growing protest in Sudan and in the Arab region against Noura being sentenced to death
  13 May 2018, by siawi3

  “A married woman must obey her husband. If the husband has paid the dowry and if he provides a suitable home, his wife can not refuse sexual intercourse,†Article 91 of the Sudanese Family Law states.The Sudanese No to Suppression of Women Initiative has launched a campaign against the ruling, and press for the criminalisation of marital rape as a form of violence against women. Many Arab women’s rights activists consider the condemnation unjust as well. With the hashtag #JusticeForNoura they protest the fact that she has not been granted the right to self-defence against sexual assaults. “Many people are citing Sharia law and saying that sex with her is his “right by marriage” - forgetting that marriage WITHOUT consent is illegitimate in Islam. Also, allowing other males into your bedroom to assist in raping your wife, is far from anything Islam condones.â€

• Amnesty International  : « Au Soudan, la condamnation de Noura soulève la question des mariages forcés  »
  11 mai 2018, par siawi3

  Entretien avec Anne Denis, responsable de la commission pour l’abolition de la peine de mort àAmnesty International.

• Save Sudanese female citizen, Noura Hussein Hammad, age 19
  9 May 2018, by siawi3

  It concerns the case of a 19 y.o. Sudanese female citizen, Noura Hussein Hammad - who is a victim of Child Marriage, Forced Marriage, Rape/Marital Rape, Honour Based Violence, Gender Based Violence and Violence against Women & Children and who is facing a death sentence to be issued by the Sudanese authorities on 10 May 2018

• Sudanese teen bride who killed husband during rape to be executed
  10 May 2018, by siawi3

  A 19-year-old girl in Sudan was sentenced to death by a court on Thursday for murdering her husband after he tried to rape her, said campaigners, calling on the president to pardon her as she was forced into a child marriage, and had acted in self-defence. “Criminalisation of Noura for defending herself from assault and, in particular a death sentence, would violate her rights under the Sudanese Constitution and international law.”

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