{"id":120,"date":"2013-05-13T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:05:55","slug":"vic-teens-forced-into-marriage-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/vic-teens-forced-into-marriage-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic teens forced into marriage: inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne girls as young as 15 are being forced into marriages overseas, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.<\/p>\n

There were three examples of forced marriage in one Melbourne high school, a migrant support worker told the inquiry.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

‘She had been taken on holiday by her family and was unaware of what would be happening to her,’ Ms Casablanca told the inquiry.<\/p>\n

The girl’s husband is now trying to obtain a spousal visa to come to Australia.<\/p>\n

Australian authorities have been told the girl, who was born overseas, is now 18 years old.<\/p>\n

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Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/national\/article.aspx?id=870952<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,7,3,10,18,12,70,69,31],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-abusive","tag-forced-marriage","tag-haloproject","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-marriage","tag-marry","tag-psychologically","tag-slavery","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}