Disobeying a Forced Marriage Protection Order can result in a sentence of up to 5 years in prison

Forcing someone to marry can result in a sentence of up to 7 years in prison in the UK

Did you know the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 makes it a criminal offence to force someone to marry?

Women who undergo #FGM have an increased risk of complications during pregnancy and childbirth.

#FGM causes immediate consequences of pain, shock, bleeding, injury of other genital tissue, difficulty urinating, infections, and sometimes death due to hemorrhagic shock

#FGM has become a pressing issue in Australia, Canada, England, France, and the U.S., because of immigrants continuing to practice the procedures that were common in their native countries

Approx 140 million girls and women live with the consequences of #FGM worldwide

#FGM is defined as procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Laila, not her real name, recounts escaping from her parents, who had arranged for her sister Homa, 16, also not her real name, to marry a much older man against her will Looking back, life could have been very different for me and my two younger sisters if our schools had taught us about our […]