With the Yemeni government in a state of transition, the time is right to propose new legislation that would protect young girls from the physical, emotional and economic harms of early marriage, writes Women and Human Rights in the Middle East research assistant Ariana Marnicio.
Read her post in the Dec. 20, 2013, Baker Institute Blog.
Dec. 20, 2013, 2 a.m.
A.Kadir Yildirim is a fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute. His main research interests include politics and religion, political Islam, the politics of the Middle East, and Turkish politics. Yildirim is the author of two books. …
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Economics at Rice University, where he also holds the endowed Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management. He is also a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute at Rice …
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