Jun 7, 2011

Ethiopian girls fight child marriages

" I wanted to get an education but my parents were determined to marry me off , " says Himanot Yehewala , an Ethiopian girl who was married five years ago at the age of 13 .

" I tried to run away but my mother said she would kill herself if I did not marry him . " " I was not mature physically or emotionally so it was not easy for me to go and sleep with my husband . "

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