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Saudi Arabia Shifts Course on Child Marriage
Feb 9th 2010 – 7:20PM
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(Feb. 9) – For the first time, the Saudi Arabian state has intervened in the marriage of a preteen girl to an older man, leading some campaigners to speculate that the kingdom could be about to ban the cruel and archaic practice of child marriage. The government-run Human Rights Commission (HRC) has hired a lawyer...
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