Portrait of Early Marriage in Some Countries in the World

"I am afraid of it," Tahani (pink dress) recalls the first time with Majed marriage, when he was only 6 years old, while Majed 25. Young wife, now 8 years old, posing with former classmates, Ghada.

After celebrating with female relatives, and Galiyaah Sidaba wearing a veil and accompanied to their new lives with their husbands. "Some girls see marriage as a village way out of family control," said Ahmed al-Qurashi, activists in the capital Sanaa.

A group of young bride in a village in western Yemen quiet and shy. Most of the women, who married at ages between 14 and 16 years, never felt the school. But they still expect education.

Asia, 14-year-old mother, wiping her baby daughter, while her 2 year old play. Asia is still in the puerperium and still sekit after giving birth, but do not know how to take care of herself.

Nujood Ali was 10 years old when her husband escaped from abusive and much older. He escaped using a taxi to the court in Sanaa, Yemen. The courage of the little girl's turning it into an international hero for women's rights. Ali, now divorced, returned to his family home and went back to school.

Kandahar policewoman, Malalai Kakar arrested a man who repeatedly stabbed his wife 15 year old because they do not comply. "No," Kakar said when asked whether he will be punished. "The man is king here

A few hours past midnight, which was 5 years old kingly roused from his sleep and his uncle headed the ceremony perkimpoiannya lap. Young marriage is banned in India, so the ceremony is often held before dawn.

Kingly and groom are still rarely sighted little while married in front of the sacred fire. According to custom, the young bride remain at home until the age of puberty baliq.

Although early marriage is prevalent in his small village in Nepal, 16-year-old Surita shrieking do not want to leave his family home, hidden behind a decorative umbrella of traditional and transported by train to her new husband's village.

When parents Sunil perkimpoiannya set when she was just 11 years, he threatened to report them to the police station in Rajasthan, India. His parents relented, and Sunil, now 13 years old, stay in school.