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Nada AL-Ahdal's Issue
Nada AL-Ahdal's Issue Nada AL-Ahdal's issue started in July, 2013. A little Yemeni girl whose name is Nada AL-Ahdal appeared on YOUTUBE for two minutes. She is 11 years old. She demonstrated what she was forced to get married, and she spoke about her escaping from her family because of her compulsory marriage. This issue has been done a big sound in the media. A report was published by Seaj Organization for Child Welfare who doubted this narration and declared that this little girl was incurred for utilization.

Her Issue
Nada belongs to a poor family that hasn’t enough money, and she lives with her uncle who takes care of her. Nada's family has a long story with early marriage. Nada's aunt got married when she was less than 13 years old. She has ended her life by burning herself because of her marriage problems. Nada's uncle said that Nada's family wanted to force their daughter to get married when she was 10 years old, but her uncle prevented this marriage. Nada's father wanted his daughter to get married again without telling his brother. He took his daughter from her uncle's house for visiting her mother and sisters. This little girl got shocked when her family wanted her to get married again. Then she decided to escape from her family's house to her uncle's house. Sunday Morning 7 July, 2013 Nada escaped to her uncle's house. Unfortunately, she didn’t find him because he travelled. After that she travelled with a woman to Hodiedah city to meet her uncle. During those days her family made a notification to police station, and they told the police station that their daughter was kidnapped before her uncle took her to the police station and demonstrated this matter to them. Seaj Organization threatened Nada's uncle and forced him to bring the girl to the Unity of Yemen Women. Lastly, Nada's father undertakes in front of the media he won't force his daughter to get married before the legal age. Ministry of Interior is going to submit the girl to her uncle in a formal way.

Video
Nada published a video on her facebook account in 7 July, 2013. On 21 of July from the same month this video was published by the Research Institute for the Middle East, and it was widespread in all over the world. In addition Nada's video was traslated in English, and it was seen by more than 7 million in 3 days. Nada said on the video: Salaam Alaikum. Allah's mercy and blessings upon you. Hello to you all. I'd like to thank Mukhtar Al-Sharafi and Amal. I'd like to thank all the journalist and you as well. It's true that I ran away from my family. I can't live with them anymore. Enough. I want to go live with my uncle. What about the innocence of childhood? What have the children done wrong? Why do you marry them off like that? I managed to solve my problem, but some innocent children can't solve theirs, and they might die, commit suicide, or do whatever comes to mind. They're just kids. What do they know? They didn't have time to study, or anything. It's not our fault. I'm not the only one. It can happen to any child. There are many cases like that. Some children decide to throw themselves into the sea. They're dead now. This is not normal for innocent children. It's true that I fled to my uncle, but he wasn't home. So I called Abd Al-Jabbar to come and get me. Abd Al-Jabbar sent me a woman to travel with her back to Al-Hudaydah. When my uncle heard about it all, he came for me. I filed a complaint with the police against my mother. I told them that I am only 11 years old and she wants to marry me off. I would have had no life, no education. Don't they have any compassion? What kind of upbringing did they get? I'm better off dead. I'd rather die. I'd rather live with my uncle than with these people. They threatened to kill me if I went to my uncle. What kind of people threaten their children like that? Would it make you happy to marry me off against my will? Go ahead and marry me off. I'll kill myself, just like that. I won't go back to live with them. I won't. They have killed our dreams. They have killed everything inside us. There's nothing left. This is no upbringing. This is criminal, simply criminal. My maternal aunt was 14 years old. She lasted one year with her husband, and she poured gasoline over herself and set herself on fire. She died. He would beat her with metal [chains]. He would get drunk. Would it make you happy to marry me off?! My mother, my family, believe me when I say: I'm done with you. You've ruined my dreams.

The Media
Yemeni and foreign media made a big interest to publish Nada's issue because this matter is real for the early marriage problem. BBC channel published Nada's issue under the title, an online petition of a girl shed light on the early marriage in Yemen, and this girl appeared in France channel, AL-Jadeed channel, and AL-Meadeen channel to demonstrate her issue. Moreover, her issue was published in lots of media's reports, and she was one of the most 29 famous girl in 2013 according to 'towardthestars' website. This narration was taken in all the world's media.

Seaj Organization Notification
This issue raised a lot of interest. On the other hand it also raised a lot of questions if it's a really real narration or not, and if she was forced to get married. Seaj Organization for Child Welfare suggested that some of the Nada's issue were fabricated. That Seaj Organization for Child Welfare said Nada's family didn't force Nada to get married, but they wanted her to get engaged. Some people wanted to make utilization with this little girl and presented her to the public as a victim of the early marriage in order to get a lot of money. Seaj Organization requires the authorities not to give the girl to her uncle. By the way Abdulsalam AL-Ahdal Nada's Uncle denied that if this issue is not real and accused Seaj Organization. Nada's uncle said that Seaj Organization follows Muslims brothers who work hard in order to hide this issue and hide Nada. Nada's uncle said he can't face those power people because his possibilities are limited. Furthermore, there are some people who want to hide this issue, and we were threatened.