Are the Kathy Lette’s and Germaine Greer’s of the world outraged over the plight of these girls? Or are they just angry about other things, like Sarah Palin for instance.
Nujood

“Based on the principles of Sharia law her husband was compensated, not prosecuted”

The most talked about honoree of the 2008 Glamour Women of the Year awards was a small child of 10. Nujood Ali, who flew all the way from her native Yemen for the ritzy Carnegie Hall gala, was married off by impoverished parents to a 30-year-old man who raped and abused her.

Her father, who drew an annual salary equivalent to $900, had 18 children and couldn’t afford to clothe and feed Ali so he gave her up for marriage. Though her older husband promised to wait years before becoming intimate with his child bride, he beat her and raped her on their wedding night. Ali had enough.
Taking a solo trip to a Yemen courthouse, she sat until a judge took notice and heard her pleas for help. After the lawyer linked her up with a human rights lawyer named Shada Nasser, the brave girl became the country’s first child bride to legally end her marriage with a divorce.

“I didn’t like my husband so my stepmother told me if I wasn’t happy, I should go to court,” Ali told The Daily News through a translator. “But no one was willing to take me. So I went on my own.”

Praise for the pint-sized hero was flowing from some of the biggest names at Monday night’s ceremony….

Shada Nasser, Najood Ali – Glamour Women of the Year Awards

Another brave girl;

KABUL–A victim of an acid attack on schoolgirls in Afghanistan says she is determined to stay in school even if that means risking death.

The girl, who gave her name as just Shamsia, was the most seriously injured of a group of girls attacked outside their school by unidentified men in the southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday.

“I’ll continue my schooling even if they try to kill me. I won’t stop going to school,” Shamsia said from her bed at a Kabul military hospital.