{"id":1235,"date":"2017-03-13T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2017-03-13T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:38:05","slug":"tip-of-the-iceberg-uk-records-1428-forced-marriage-victims-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/tip-of-the-iceberg-uk-records-1428-forced-marriage-victims-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tip of the Iceberg\u2019: UK Records 1,428 Forced Marriage Victims in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) recorded over 1,400 victims in 2016, up from 1,200 the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Nazir Afzal, former head of the North-West Crown Prosecution Service, told the taxpayer-funded broadcaster that \u201cone of the major things stopping victims coming forward is the codes of silence that exist in the family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Afzal likened the culture within communities where forced marriage is common to organised crime, explaining that \u201cit\u2019s like the mafia. You cover up, as you are so scared of the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-33424644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a011,744 so-called \u201chonour crimes\u201d in the UK between 2010 and 2014, with campaigners claiming far more likely going unrecorded.<\/p>\n<p>The Halo Project\u00a0<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedebrief.co.uk\/news\/politics\/uk-honour-killings-20160964920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimates<\/a>\u00a0these crimes include an annual 12-15 honour-related killings, again noting that the true figure could be far higher.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2017\/03\/11\/tip-iceberg-uk-records-1428-forced-marriage-victims-2016\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) recorded over 1,400 victims in 2016, up from 1,200 the previous year. Nazir Afzal, former head of the North-West Crown Prosecution Service, told the taxpayer-funded broadcaster that \u201cone of the major things stopping victims coming forward is the codes of silence that exist in the family\u201d. Afzal likened the culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forced-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","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=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}