I Am Nujood Age 10 And Divorced

Women s magazine glamour designated nujood ali and her lawyer shada nasser as women of the year.

I am nojoom age 10 and divorcedis a 2014 yemeni drama filmdirected by khadija al salami. It was selected as the yemeni entry for the best foreign language filmat the 89th academy awards the first time that yemen had submitted a film for consideration. However it was not nominated. نجود علي born 1998 is a central figure in yemen s movement against forced marriage and child marriage.

Nujood s childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. I am nujood age 10 and divorced tells the story of nujood ali a yemeni girl who is possibly the youngest divorcée in the world. Sold off by her impoverished family at the age of 10 continually raped by her husband before she even reached puberty nujood found the courage to run away and with the help of an activist lawyer sympathetic judges and the international press she divorced her husband and returned home. Uplifting and impossible to put down this is a true story of the ten year old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry courageously defying both yemeni customs and her own family.

She experienced abuse that no one should let alone such a young child. I am nujood age 10 and divorced was written by nujood ali with delphine minoui. The story takes place in a rustic village called khardji yemen. Unfortunately her case is not uncommon and reading about the treatment suffered by many yemeni women just infuriated me.

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That s right by the age of 10 this young girl from yemen had been given in marriage by her own father to a man three times her age. Khardji is so small and remote that it does not make it onto most maps of the country. 06 2020 when her family would not help her escape the horror her life had become this yemeni child acted on her own. As the title suggests nujood is a 10 year old girl who was married off to a man three times her age.

In november 2008 the u s. Nujood published her biography co written with french journalist delphine minoui in 2010 two years after her controversial divorce. At the age of ten she obtained a divorce breaking with the tribal tradition. It is the true story of a ten year old yemeni girl named nujood.

Poverty is perhaps one of the contributing factors forcing parents in rural yemen to curtail their young girl s education to marry them to men three times their senior.