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"I'm a straightforward village girl who may have always obeyed the orders of my dad and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no."
Compelled by her daddy to marry a guy three times her age group, young Nujood Ali was delivered from her parents and beloved sisters and designed to live with her hubby and his family in an isolated town in rural Yemen. There she endured daily from physical and mental abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have erotic relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he required her virginity on the wedding night. She was only ten years old.
Unable to go through the pain and problems any longer, Nujood fled--not for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi ride with a few precious coins of breads money. Whenever a renowned Yemeni lawyer found out about the young victim, she required on Nujood's case and fought the archaic system in a country where almost half girls are wedded while still under the legal age group. Since their unprecedented victory in April 2008, Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni traditions and her own family has drawn a storm of international attention. Her story even incited change in Yemen and other Midsection Eastern countries, where underage relationship laws are being progressively enforced and other child brides have been granted divorces.
Just lately honored alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as one of "Glamour" magazine's women of the year, Nujood now says her full story for the first time. As she guides us from the marvelous, fragrant streets of the Old City of Sana'a to the cement-block slums and rural villages of this historical land, her unflinching look at an injustice endured by all too many girls surrounding the world is at once shocking, motivating, and utterly remarkable.
