Posts Tagged ‘marry’
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
Tags: betroth, child brides, Child Marriage Act, forced, forced marriage, halo project, honour based violence, infant mortality, marriage, marry, maternal mortality, violence, young age
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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/
Tags: attempted, detained, Egytian, extracted, forced marriage, Forcibly, haloproject, honour, honour based violence, marry, violence
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Published: April 2nd, 2013 Updated: April 29th, 2013
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 and describes the terrible consequences of forced marriage for so many girls in South Sudan.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/nearly-half-of-teenage-girls-in-forced-marriages-in-south-sudan.html#ixzz2PJb197vB
Tags: forced marriage, haloproject, honour, honour based violence, marry, Sudan, violence
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Published: March 7th, 2013 Updated: April 29th, 2013
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 children and families.
“I am, however, pleased to say that multi-agency professional help is increasingly emerging. Both the police and partner agencies know about these crimes and ready to help victims find a solution.”
He added: “Only this week we saw the launch of a Government-funded smartphone Freedom app. It provides information and sources of help aimed not just at potential victims – who so often don’t know where to go for help – but also at their friends, teachers and professionals.”
He also acknowledged Prime Minister David Cameron’s promise to make forced marriage a criminal offence and said he hoped it would be sooner rather than later. It is hoped that legislation will be brought forward this year or next.
Read more: http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/deputy-commissioner-speaks-out-against-forced-marriages-1-5476709
Tags: crime, forced marriage, Foreign Office, halo project, honour, honour based violence, marriage, marry, murder
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Published: November 29th, 2012 Updated: April 29th, 2013
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.
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Tags: criminalisation, cultural stereotypes, forced marriage, Foreign Office, halo project, honour, honour based violence, marriage, marry, murder, victims, violence
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Published: November 29th, 2012 Updated: April 29th, 2013
Cleveland’s Police and Crime Commissioner has today pledged to back a new initiative aimed at tackling what he described as the ‘misery and suffering’ caused by so-called honour-based violence and forced marriages.
Barry Coppinger, speaking at the launch of the HALO Project held in Middlesbrough, stressed that, as well as providing support to victims, it was crucial that the police and other agencies had the expertise to develop their services.
Led by Tees Valley Inclusion and backed by a wide range of partners, the HALO project aims to provide a focal point of contact which can deal sensitively and confidentially with victims, as well as providing guidance for agencies on how they can meet their needs effectively.
Tags: forced marriage, forced marriage unit, halo project, honour, honour based violence, marriage, marry, police, Tees Valley Inclusion, victims, violence
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Published: July 7th, 2012 Updated: April 29th, 2013
Forcing someone to marry is set to be made a crime after David Cameron rejected claims that doing so would simply drive the practice underground.
The move, expected to be announced tomorrow would represent a victory for campaigners who argued that only full criminalisation would deter abusive families.
Almost 1,700 people a year in Britain – most of them women from Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds – come forward to voice fears that their family is plotting to force them into a marriage against their will. But the figure is thought to be only the tip of the iceberg with many afraid for their lives or fearing that they would be ostracised if they resisted.
It emerged earlier this year that a five-year-old girl had been forced into a marriage and last year alone the Home Office’s dedicated Forced Marriage Unit dealt with 400 children.
An 87-year-old woman was also a suspected victim.
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Published: June 7th, 2012 Updated: April 29th, 2013
Parents who coerce their children to marry will face jail under moves to be set out tomorrow by David Cameron.
The Prime Minister will announce that forced marriage will be made a criminal offence following reports that up to 8,000 Britons are made to marry against their consent every year. He has previously described the practice – which can include kidnapping, beatings and rape – as “little more than slavery” and “completely wrong”.
Most cases of forced marriage involve families from southern Asia, including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Among them are hundreds of girls below the age of 16 who are taken abroad to be coerced into marriage. The Government’s forced-marriage unit – which dealt with 1,500 cases last year – has revealed that a five-year-old girl was one of 400 children it helped. One in five victims was male.
The Government is already committed to criminalising breaches of forced-marriage protection orders, which are criminal injunctions and carry jail terms of up to two years for contempt of court. But ministers have decided to go further and draw up a new criminal offence for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The offence will carry a prison sentence, but the maximum term has not yet been decided. During consultation on the move, concerns were expressed that criminalising forced marriage altogether could deter victims from coming forward to police.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/parents-who-force-their-children-into-marriage-face-jail-7821316.html
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