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Prevalence Of Child Marriages Every year some 10 million girls under the age of 18 gets married, which translates to one every 3 seconds, says “Breaking Vows”, a report by Plan UK on child marriages. The trouble is that these marriages are not happy ones, and are the cause of much ill health among the young brides [...] Forced Marriages Under Discussion In The UK A Forced Marriage Act was introduced in the UK in 2008 to protect people at risk from being forced into marriage, but the view is that it does not have enough bite. Hence there is a campaign to strengthen the law. The government is expected to come to some decision [...] Reason For Police Initiative The rising numbers of cases of forced marriages in South Wales has led the police force there to draw up a training scheme to tackle the problem. The training scheme is now in use by more than half of UK police forces. Prevalence Of Forced Marriages In South Wales The police in South Wales used [...] The TV Show A young man watched his mother toiling very hard at work that most people would not consider “worthy”, and it got him thinking that there could be lots of mothers in Afghanistan in the same boat, with no voice to talk about their plight. And this thought led to the new TV show called [...] Appointment Of Commission To Tighten Law Against Forced And Child Marriages The Swedish government has appointed former Chancellor of Justice Goran Lambertz to head a commission to gather more information on forced marriages and marriages involving minors, and to investigate how the law against such marriages might be tightened. The commission has been given a deadline of [...] Have you ever wondered who exactly is this Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal? She is taking the Arab world by storm with her performances in the Abu Dhabi TV idol-like Million’s Poet Contest. To be sure, no one outside her family has seen her face. She appears on TV weaing a niqab, face veiled. But she makes [...] The recent case in Ohio when a US judge invalidated a Muslim arranged marriage highlights the need to protect young girls from being forced into marriages by their parents or guardians. A year ago, the UK introduced the Forced Marriage and Civil Protection Act in an attempt to do just that. Since then, 86 forced marriage [...] |
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