![]() ![]() ![]() Since her victory, Nujood has given other young girls the courage to stand up to their society's customs. With the help of a woman lawyer, Chadha Nasser, NGOs and the local press, Nujood finally obtained her freedom, an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where there is a conspiracy of silence about the fact that almost half the girls are married under the legal age. Instead of going to the market to buy bread, she took a taxi to the court building. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand. At the age of 10, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the. Nujood's childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. Author Bio Nujood Ali, born in 1998, is a figure of Yemens fight against forced marriage. ![]() The true story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Author(s): Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui ![]()
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