In a video released on LiveLeak, Nada Al-Ahdal said she was forced to flee [from her family] and live with her uncle after she was promised to another man.<\/p>\n
“They told me that I am engaged, and that my fianc\u00e9 had already paid them money and brought the engagement ring,” Nada tells the camera.<\/p>\n
“They said that I couldn’t leave and even threatened to kill me if I went back to my uncle.”<\/p>\n
The video was released by the Middle East Research Institute, a non-profit press monitoring organisation based in the US.<\/p>\n
The girl says a common response from child brides is to commit suicide when faced with a forced marriage.<\/p>\n
“I’m not an item for sale, I’m a human being and I would rather die than get married at this age.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve decided that I have two choices: to leave or to die. So I chose the first.”<\/p>\n
The video is quickly going viral on the internet. Thanks to sharing through social media and websites like Reddit. (Source: <\/strong>LiveLeak<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n Forced marriage<\/strong> is a marriage in which one or both of the parties is married<\/a> without his or her consent or against his or her will. A forced marriage differs from an arranged marriage<\/a>, in which both parties consent to the assistance of their parents or a third party (such as a matchmaker<\/a>) in identifying a spouse, although the difference between the two may be indistinct.<\/p>\n The practice of forced marriage is still practiced in many parts of South Asia<\/a>, East Asia<\/a> and Africa<\/a> and among immigrants to the West from these regions.<\/p>\n Some scholars object to use of the term “forced marriage” because it invokes the consensual legitimating language of marriage (such as husband\/wife) for an experience that is precisely the opposite. A variety of alternatives exist, including forced conjugal association, and conjugal slavery.<\/p>\n The United Nations<\/a> views forced marriage as a form of human rights abuse<\/a>, since it violates the principle of the freedom<\/a> and autonomy of individuals. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a> states that a women’s right to choose a spouse and enter freely into marriage is central to her life and dignity<\/a>, and equality<\/a> as a human being. The Roman Catholic Church<\/a> deems forced marriage grounds for granting an annulment<\/a> \u2014 for a marriage to be valid both parties must give their consent freely. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery<\/a> also prohibits marriage without right to refuse of herself out of her parents’, family’s and other persons’ will and requires the minimum age for marriage<\/a> to prevent this. (Source: Wikipedia)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a video released on LiveLeak, Nada Al-Ahdal said she was forced to flee [from her family] and live with her uncle after she was promised to another man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}