Foreign Office reveals cases from Italy, Holland, Australia, Indonesia and Nigeria, with one in five victims a man, and ages ranging from five to 87. Britain’s forced marriage victims are being coerced to marry in more far flung places and at a much younger age than previously thought. Last year more than half of the […]

There is a very real issue of violence towards women in British Asian society, but let’s not dress it up as something cultural. This week’s Panorama, Britain’s Crimes of Honour, made for harrowing viewing. In the space of 30 minutes, the programme recounted horrific murders of women in the UK. There was video footage of Banaz Mahmod, the young […]

“I was not interested in marriage at all. But my mother and grandmother forced me to accept. I do not like the bridegroom. I am happy that the district administration has stopped my marriage because I was only around 16,” says a girl from Melapuliyur, who is one of the 167 girls in Perambalur district […]

The Egyptian embassy in Yemen secured the release of a young Egyptian citizen who was forcibly detained in the home of her foster family in Aden. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the girl’s foster family attempted to force her to marry one of their own relatives. With the help of the local authorities, […]

The federal government has unveiled a revamped guide to help immigrants settle in Canada — a document that, for the first time, informs newcomers about practices that “will not be tolerated in Canada,” including female genital mutilation, honour crimes and marriage fraud. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/honour-killings-marriage-fraud-new-topics-in-revamped-immigration-guide-1.1221059#ixzz2RBwIi0yB

Midwives in the West Midlands are to be trained by the police to help spot victims of forced marriage and “honour-based violence”. About 50 Wolverhampton health workers are expected to attend a conference being held to raise awareness of the issues in Wednesfield on Wednesday. Police hope health professionals will be able to identify potential […]

As many as 80 percent of marriages in Afghanistan take place without the consent of the bride, who is often a child. Many of them see killing themselves as the only way out. Weddings are one of the few occasions in Afghanistan when families and friends can forget their sorrows and the ongoing violence in […]

A 17-year-old girl has exposed the scale of Islamic sex tourism in India where Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa are buying ‘one month wives’ for sex.  The victim, Nausheen Tobassum, revealed the scale of the problem when she escaped from her home last month after her parents pressurised her to consummate a forced […]

A 17-year-old girl whose brother tried to murder her in an ‘honour killing’ said she wishes she had died after surviving an axe attack, disowned by her family for escaping a forced marriage .At the age of 12, Gul Meena was married off to a 60-year-old man instead of being sent to school in Pakistan.Every […]