After years of debate on the issue of forced marriage, Austria is taking the bull by the horns by launching a project to provide emergency refuge for female victims.   Read more: http://www.west-info.eu/a-refuge-for-brides-from-forced-marriages/

Nearly half of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 years old are married. Some were as young as 12 years old when they were forced to marry men who, in many cases, were far older than them. The Old Man Can Feed Us So You Will Marry Him, a new report from Human Rights Watch, documents these facts […]

Women who find themselves victims of forced marriage and honour based violence are being urged by Derbyshire’s Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa, to seek help from the police. Mr Dhindsa, speaking out in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on Friday, said: “Forced marriage has far-reaching impacts, and particularly with regard to safeguarding […]

Young people between the ages of 16 and 25 are most at risk of being forced into marriage in the UK – with children as young as two being targeted. Foreign Office Minister for Consular Policy Mark Simmonds said: “Forcing someone to marry is an appalling and indefensible practice which is why the Government is […]

Groomed for sex at 12, stabbed to death at 17: Shocking life of white teenage mother murdered after Asian lover rejected her child Teenage girl stabbed to death for bringing “shame” on two Asian families. She had a brief fling with a married man and became pregnant with his child while she was in a […]

Alarming number of ‘honour attacks’ in the UK as police reveal thousands were carried out last year Nearly 3,000 so-called honour attacks were recorded by police in Britain last year, new research has revealed. According to figures obtained by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (Ikwro), at least 2,823 incidents of ‘honour-based’ violence took […]

MANY vulnerable Scots are living in fear of their spouse, with some feeling suicidal, despite new laws aimed to protect victims of forced marriage. DISABLED Scots are being forced into marriage against their will, according to a shocking report. Support groups say vulnerable people with mental and physical disabilities are living in fear of a […]

A teenage student stabbed to death and dumped in a canal was groomed for sexual exploitation by adults from the age of 12, it has been revealed. Laura Wilson, 17, had been tracked by social services since 2005 after she was identified as being ‘at risk’ of sexual exploitation by British Pakistani men. But their […]

Barry Coppinger, The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland and Yasmin Khan, Vela Group – Talk about Honour Based Violence and Forced Marriages in our Region. https://www.haloproject.org.uk/img/page/halo-inverview.mp3_page_image.mp3