{"id":1396,"date":"2017-08-31T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2017-08-31T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:03:26","slug":"rape-forced-marriage-and-mutilation-women-tell-their-harrowing-stories-to-home-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/rape-forced-marriage-and-mutilation-women-tell-their-harrowing-stories-to-home-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape, forced marriage and mutilation &#8211; women tell their harrowing stories to Home Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Rudd visited The Halo Project which supports victims of forced marriage, FGM and domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors of domestic abuse and forced marriage told their harrowing stories to one of the UK\u2019s most senior politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary Amber Rudd visited charity The Halo Project, which supports victims of forced marriage,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" data-action=\"crime\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"2\">domestic abuse<\/a>\u00a0, honour based violence and female genital mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>She was there to find out how the Home Office could further support the project and combat extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Rudd spent around an hour with the charity in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/all-about\/middlesbrough\" data-action=\"middlesbrough\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"2\">central Middlesbrough<\/a>\u00a0and heard some inspiring and shocking stories from survivors.<\/p>\n<p>One woman, who did not want to be named, spoke of her journey from her native Nigeria to Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI was on the verge of committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a victim of domestic violence and I was forced to marry someone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to run from my life because it was the only way I could get myself out.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/rape-forced-marriage-mutilation-women-13556857<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Rudd visited The Halo Project which supports victims of forced marriage, FGM and domestic abuse. Survivors of domestic abuse and forced marriage told their harrowing stories to one of the UK\u2019s most senior politicians. Home Secretary Amber Rudd visited charity The Halo Project, which supports victims of forced marriage,\u00a0domestic abuse\u00a0, honour based violence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,419,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm","category-forced-marriage","category-honour-based-abuse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","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=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}