Ce blog parle de villages dont on s'occupe peu dans les médias, parfois miniers comme Saint Florent sur Auzonnet, niché dans une vallée retirée, envaginé au creux de montagnes, Molières sur Cèze, Le Martinet, Saint Jean de Valériscles, La Grand Combe etc... Une vie poétique et dure à faire renaitre pour tous. Germinal. Ayant filé plus loin que prévu -grâce à Aliaa Elmahdy- il est à présent bilingue français-anglais. This blog speaks about Cevennes villages unknown in media, sometimes mining (coal), Saint Florent, nestled in a secluded valley, Molières, Le Martinet, St. Jean, La Grand Combe ... A poetic and hard life revives here. Germinal (Zola). Having spun further than expected, thanks to Aliaa Elmahdy, it is now bilingual. Note: if someone finds mistakes in english, I would be pleased if he corrects them ! Thanks. Hélène Larrivé

jeudi 22 novembre 2012

Une jeune fille... de 12 ans meurt en couches !!! au Yemen, comme beaucoup...

Mona Elthawy, auteure (lien en français avec "la haine des femmes")


A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby. Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labour before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday. Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening. Born into an impoverished family she was forced to drop out of school and married off to a 24-year-old man last year. Child brides are commonplace in Yemen, especially in the Red Sea Coast where tribal customs hold sway. Hodeidah is the fourth largest city and an important port. More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18 many times to older men, sometimes with more than one wife, according to a study by Sanaa University. The reasons vary. Sometimes, financially-strapped parents offer up their daughters for money, hefty dowries. The girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to them. And often parents will extract a promise from the husband to wait until the girl is older to consummate the marriage. When she becomes pregnant, the risks for her and her baby is to die. "Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s. The Yemeni child brides came to the forefront in 2008 with 10-year-old Nujood Ali who was pulled out of school and married, beaten and raped within weeks of the ceremony. To escape, she hailed a taxi, the first time in her life, to get across town to the central courthouse where she sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge. After a well-publicized trial, she was granted a divorce. The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law setting the minimum marriage age at 17 but the measure has not succeed because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia which does not stipulate a minimum age.