A model was found hanged after fearing she was about to be forced into an arranged marriage by her Muslim parents, an inquest heard. Nadia Menaz, 24, was found dead at her home in Oldham, Greater Manchester in May, five months after taking out a court order to stop her family from forcing her to […]

Indian protesters are taking to Twitter to share the #StrengthtoSayNo hashtag as part of a campaign to crack down on child marriage. Launched by Penguin Books in association with news website Better India, the initiative seeks to bring awareness to the all-too-common practice of forced underage marriage, in a country where one in five brides […]

POLICE in the North-East and support organisations led by the Halo Project have united to sign an honour based violence (HBV) charter pledging to wipe out the crime in the region and are urging victims to come forward. They said that vital lessons have been learned since Banaz Mahmod’s pleas for help fell on deaf […]

Don’t go. Don’t go. DON’T GO. These words were written again and again in bold or in capitals in almost every single of more than 800 comments under OP’s post on the social news site Reddit. As a regular Reddit user, the young American girl sought help in her usual place when she didn’t know […]

As Fathers across Australia awake on Sunday to appreciative offspring bearing gifts, they could spare a thought for the child grooms of Nepal who can be as young as seven. Child marriage is mostly an issue for young girls but a new report by CARE Australia says it can also be a problem for young […]

When 16-year-old Mariatu* goes to bed at night she is scared of going to sleep. She fears members of powerful, all-female secret societies are going to break into her room with the consent of her parents and kidnap her. Mariatu has good reason to be afraid. She has already fled her village in northern Sierra Leone […]

Lucee* was 21 when she left her family and studies in Sierra Leone to come to England, last year. She felt she had no other options after learning that her father was planning on forcing her to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), and then become the second wife to an older man she’d never met. […]

Last month, seven British survivors of ‘honour’ abuse and forced marriage spoke out in public about their experiences. They explained how it felt to be abused by those closest to them – their family and community members – in the name of ‘honour’. This marked the UK’s first ever Day of Memory for victims of […]

The West Jakarta Police, working together with the Tambora Police, arrested a young man after he abducted a 16-year-old a child and forced her into a religious marriage. Tambora Police Commission Wirdhanto Hadicaksono said the girl was kidnapped on Saturday, July 18, in Tambora, West Jakarta. The girl’s mother only knew that her daughter had […]