Girls give up a lot when they are forced into marriage. A video produced by UNICEF highlights how different life is for a child bride as compared to a girl who can access an education. The PSA — which focuses on child brides in Chad — begins with a girl who died during childbirth. It […]

On a freezing night three years ago, 13-year-old Susmita Kami sneaked out of her husband’s house and didn’t stop running until she reached her parents’ doorstep in Nepal’s remote northwest. Her escape from a forced marriage — a tradition many teenage girls from the Himalayan nation’s Dalit community are expected to uphold — was soon […]

Student Halo Project – Durham Durham University Student Halo project are working to raise the awareness of forced marriage and honour based violence. Working with the Pro Bono Society, a group of Student Ambassadors have been recruited to spread the work of the project through a timeline of events which have included the screening of […]

Halo Project Durham Launch The Halo Project Staff with Ron Hogg, PCC for Durham and Chaz Akoshile, Joint Head of The Forced Marriage Unit launching Halo’s new poster campaign to raise awareness for Honour Based Violence & Forced Marriage.

“Female Genital Mutilation is child abuse and only by working together more effectively can we protect girls from harm” were the words of Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens at a conference on Tuesday (January 27th, 2015). Tackling Honour-Based Violence, Forced Marriage and FGM was the subject of a national conference, where […]

I am hurrying through a maze of streets in a city in Pakistan with two officials from the British High Commission in Islamabad. It’s a race against time to rescue a British girl who fears she is being forced into marriage against her will. Sana, a 19-year-old from the Midlands, was brought here by her […]

The New South Wales Government’s “Child Not Bride” campaign features an advertisement with two smiling schoolgirls. It asks the question, “What girl dreams of being married at 15 to a man twice her age that she has never met?” It goes on to emphasise that “being forced to marriage under-age ruins a girl’s future and […]

VICTIMS of forced marriage and so-called honour-based violence are to get extra support, under a new project launched today (Friday, January 23). The Halo project is being funded in County Durham and Darlington by Police and Crime Commissioner Ron Hogg and was launched at The Durham Centre, on Belmont Industrial Estate, Durham. It is aimed […]

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