Take Action to End Early Marriage in Saudi Arabia

[Equality Now]

" /> Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action Update 31.3 - Saudi Arabia: End child marriages and male guardianship over women. Equality Now has been informed of several cases of Saudi girls being married off at the behest of their male guardians. Saudi Arabia has neither defined a minimum age of marriage nor taken steps to ban child marriages. Equality Now calls upon the King of Saudi Arabia asking him to issue an edict banning child marriages by establishing 18 years as a minimum age of marriage and providing punishments for those who enter into or facilitate such unions. In addition Equality Now calls upon him to ensure that the system of male guardianship over women is abolished so that Saudi women secure the right, among other things, to enter into marriages of their choice. Take action here: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4794 Please click on the following link for further information: http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3103_en.html We hope that you will support this and our other Women's Action campaigns. Please consider making a contribution to Equality Now by clicking here: https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/t/8935/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1938 You have received this email through your subscription to Equality Now's email list. If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates unsubscribe here.