>> reporter: >> reporter: reem's father and ex-husband didn't return cnn's calls. this attorney is trying to ensure young girls keep her childhood. >> must live and continue to dream. i think it is not marriage, i think is rape. >> reporter: in yemen, a deeply tribal associate the issue of child marriages is a complicated one n 2009, yemen's parliament passed legislation raising the minimum aim of marriage to 17, but conservative parliamentarians argue the bill violated islamic law which doesn't stipulate a minimum age of marriage and because of a parliamentary man nifr, the bill was never signed into law. more than 100 leading religious clerics called the attempt to restrict the aim of marriage unislamic. this adviser to the president says the is right fights against child marriage restrictions are a distraction, a way for the parliament to avoid bigger, more sensitive political issues. >> i think there should be an