Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The 11-year-old Indian girl who said "No" to marriage...

When Rekha Kalinda was nearing age 12, her parents told her they were planning to marry her off. Rekha's response would reverberate all the way up to the president of India: "No."
Nearly half of all Indian females get married before turning the legal minimum age of 18. The requirement has been in place for more than three decades, but centuries of custom don't change overnight – and that's especially true in Bararola, a land carved up into small farm plots and crisscrossed by dirt paths that takes at least a day's journey to reach from Calcutta. But even here, some people are taking a stand. More...
See also:

  1. 44% of India's brides are under-age...
  2. Yemen: child brides fight the system...
  3. Pakistan: police stop wedding of 7 year-old-boy to 5 year-old-girl...
  4. Poverty and baby brides: this is terribly sad.
  5. Saudi court refuses to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man...
  6. She's only 10, but she's already been married, raped, beaten and divorced!!

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