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Published: May 13th, 2013 Updated: May 13th, 2013
Melbourne girls as young as 15 are being forced into marriages overseas, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
There were three examples of forced marriage in one Melbourne high school, a migrant support worker told the inquiry.
Girls are being married off for money and for their husbands to obtain visas, Hiba Casablanca from the Shakti Migrant and Refugee Women’s Support Group said.
She told the federal inquiry into slavery and human trafficking about a 15-year-old Melbourne girl who thought she was going on holidays to Asia with her family, but was married off.
‘She had been taken on holiday by her family and was unaware of what would be happening to her,’ Ms Casablanca told the inquiry.
The girl’s husband is now trying to obtain a spousal visa to come to Australia.
Australian authorities have been told the girl, who was born overseas, is now 18 years old.
Read more: http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=870952
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Published: May 13th, 2013 Updated: May 13th, 2013
SURAT: Two lovers from Naldhari village of Valiya taluka in Bharuch died on Friday during treatment after consuming pesticide. The deceased lovers were hurt after forced marriage of the girl with another youth and committed suicide.
Sangita Vasava, 23, had developed relationship with neighbour Paresh Vasava, 25, few years back. Both residents of Naldhari village have promised each other to get married after permission from family members. However, Sangita’s family wanted her to get married to another youth in a neighbouring village. Sangita was forced to marry to another youth in April and after staying for few days with her husband she came to hear parents home as part of ritual.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/Lovers-end-life-after-girl-forced-to-marry-another-youth-in-Surat/articleshow/20017895.cms
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Published: May 13th, 2013 Updated: May 13th, 2013
It must be made clear and known to all that forced or arranged marriage is wrong, and cannot be justified on any religious or cultural basis.
However, the practice still exists in The Gambia, particularly in the rural areas.
We see in some parts of rural Gambia young girls being forced to marry against their will. Worst of all, they are sometimes being forced to marry men as old as their fathers’ age.
This practice must stop completely since it has many consequences for the girls, who are mainly the victims of arranged or forced marriages.
People forced into marriage may be promised greater opportunities, physically threatened and or emotionally blackmailed to do so.
When someone is forced into marriage with someone he or she does not really love the person feels that they no longer have control over their own lives.
Read more: http://allafrica.com/stories/201305090869.html
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Published: May 13th, 2013 Updated: May 13th, 2013
MELBOURNE, May 9 (Bernama) — Girls as young as 15 are being forced into marriages overseas, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
A migrant support worker told the inquiry of three examples of forced marriage in one Melbourne high school, the Australian Associated Press reports.
Girls are being married off for money and for their husbands to obtain visas, Hiba Casablanca from the Shakti Migrant and Refugee Women’s Support Group said.
She told the federal inquiry into slavery and human trafficking about a 15-year-old Melbourne girl, who thought she was going on holidays to Asia with her family, but was married off.
“She had been taken on holiday by her family and was unaware of what would be happening to her,” Casablanca said.
The girl’s husband is now trying to obtain a spousal visa to come to Australia. Australian authorities have been told the girl, who was born overseas, is now 18 years old. In another example, a 21-year-old woman was married in exchange for money, Casablanca said.
Read more: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=948550
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Published: May 7th, 2013 Updated: December 1st, 2021
EMC news – Aruna Papp never questioned the beatings she received from her husband and her father until she moved to Canada.
Papp, who grew up in India and was married by the age of 17, began working as a short-order cook at York University after emigrating in the ’70s.
After finding a second job as a women’s locker room attendant, she secretlybegan taking sociology courses in the building next to where she worked. After coming home one night and learning from her daughter that her father had instructed her husband to beat her “because that’s the only language she understands,” she escaped and lived in her car for two weeks before finding a bachelor apartment. Since then she has founded the South Asian Family Services and works with the York Regional police to educate them on cultural differences and honour based violence.
The author of Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter’s Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love, Papp told the group at an Algonquin College workshop on April 23 that telling her story was tough, but it became necessary to help women gain equal rights.
The workshop, In the Name of Honour: Responding to victims of Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriage, was hosted by the college’s victimology program, the Ottawa police victim crisis unit and the Department of Justice. The workshop marks the fourth year of the college program. It’s a one-year graduate certificate course that takes grads from social work, policing and nursing. The program was created four years ago. Each year, the speaker panel is made up of people who have been victims of violent crime, along with police officers, counsellors and social workers who have worked in various parts of the country’s judicial system.
Read more: http://www.emcbarrhaven.ca/20130502/news/College+tackles+’honour+killings’,+Police+see+need+for+education
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Published: April 29th, 2013 Updated: April 29th, 2013
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 1,500 cases the Foreign Office dealt with were connected to families in Pakistan, but cases also came from Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan, Italy, Holland, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria and Iraq. One in five victims was a man. Ages ranged from five to 87.
In each case of forced marriage, there are often several perpetrators. Yet almost no one is prosecuted in the UK. There is general agreement that forcing a person to marry against their will is a human rights abuse and that the authorities should do everything possible to protect victims from forced marriage. But that’s where the consensus ends. The UK Government is considering whether to make forced marriage a new criminal offence and opinions are divided about the potential risks and benefits.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-forced-marriage-victims-much-younger-than-previously-thought-7608813.html
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Published: April 29th, 2013 Updated: April 29th, 2013
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 Iraqi Kurdish woman from south London whose family murdered her and buried her in a suitcase after she was spotted kissing her boyfriend outside a tube station. There was the grieving mother of Laura Wilson, the teenager from Rotherham who was knifed repeatedly by her boyfriend, Ashtiaq Asghar. Then there was the wedding clip of Nosheen Azam, who came to Sheffield from Pakistan as a young bride and was trapped in an abusive marriage. She was found in her back garden, aflame. Nosheen survived but is brain dead, her body badly burnt. No one knows whether she set herself alight to commit suicide or whether it was attempted murder. Her father, who visits her in a care home, wiped tears from his eyes as he recalled telling her not to leave her husband, for the sake of her family’s pride.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/21/honour-crime-domestic-abuse
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Published: April 29th, 2013 Updated: April 29th, 2013
“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 whose marriage was stopped under the Child Marriage Act 2006.
In most of these marriages, the bridegroom was the relative of the girl, more often than not a cousin. Another common strain is that the parents were hardly educated.
Asked whether they were aware that getting married before the age of 18 was illegal and physically it could lead to complications when marrying at such a young age (even resulting in death at the time of childbirth), most of the girls either confessed ignorance or chose to keep silent.
Similar was the response from the parents too when asked whether they were not risking the life of the girl if she was to be married at a young age. Most of them remained downcast admitting they were at fault. However, a woman said: “I also got married when I was less than 16 and I am perfectly all right. I had no complications at all.” Her worry is “who will marry my daughter whose marriage has been stopped after the betrothal?”
Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/poverty-ignorance-force-parents-to-marry-off-their-daughters-early/article4656628.ece
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Published: April 29th, 2013 Updated: December 1st, 2021
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 embassy extracted the girl from the house and hosted her temporarily.
Read More: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/28/egyptian-embassy-in-yemen-rescues-girl-from-forced-marriage/
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