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By William Cannon Nada al-Ahdal protest child marriage on YouTube. Screenshot from YouTube In a powerful video posted to YouTube an 11-year-old Yemeni girl by the name of Nada al-Ahdal protest against child

Despite the fact that we’re well into the 21st century, families marrying off their daughters at unthinkably young ages is still a fairly common practice. You’ve

 Check out the video and Nada’s brave and brutally honest statement against ‪#‎childmarriage‬: http://bit.ly/18uZgX9 Despite national laws and international agreements, child marriage remains a real and

Nada al-Ahdal was saved from the forced engagement by her uncle He told her suitor that she ‘was no good for him and did not

A video posted online by an 11-year-old Yemeni girl has gained worldwide attention after she claimed she ran away from her family to escape an arranged marriage.

In a three-minute video posted online, Nada al-Ahdal, a slight and pretty 11-year-old girl, has caught the attention of millions in her home country, Yemen,

Four years after her 2013 escape from a forced marriage at age 11, immortalized in a video that was translated by MEMRI TV and that went viral,

Nada al-Ahdal was just 11-years old in July of 2013 when she fled her family home in Yemen to avoid a forced marriage with a 26-year-old