Huriya Mashhoor urges parliament to set minimum age of marriage at 18 as international condemnation intensifies
Yemen's human rights minister has vowed to ban child marriage after the reported death of an eight-year-old girl on her wedding night.
Huriya Mashhoor said she would press parliament for the minimum age of marriage to be set at 18 after the child, identified only as Rawan, reportedly died from internal bleeding after marrying a 40-year-old man. "We are asking to fix the legal age for marriage at 18, as Yemen is a signatory to the international conventions on children's rights," she told AFP.