Courage…

From the Yemen Times via 

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[Eight year old] Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by her­self on Wed­nes­day, April 2, look­ing for a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser, who forced her two months ago to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22 years her senior. The child also asked for a divorce, accus­ing her­hus­band of sexual and domestic abuse.

Brave, brave girl. Even more so, because her mother would­n’t help her and because she is not living in Amer­ica or Bri­tain or here where her school would be teach­ing her that this sort of thing is wrong.

It’s to fight for all the little girls exper­i­en­cing awful things like this that I still want to work for an organ­isa­tion like Amnesty Inter­na­tional, defend­ing human rights [1].

In better news, Kevin Rudd appoin­ted a woman, Quentin Bryce, to the post of Gov­ernor-Gen­eral, the highest office in the land until we over­throw the Queen become a republic.

[1] And they just happen to be advert­ising for an Online Man­ager right now… Fin­gers crossed.