{"id":1535,"date":"2018-06-12T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:12:31","slug":"forced-marriage-convictions-are-welcome-but-for-many-victims-stigma-is-still-judge-and-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/forced-marriage-convictions-are-welcome-but-for-many-victims-stigma-is-still-judge-and-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced marriage convictions are welcome but for many victims stigma is still judge and jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the four years since a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/forced-marriage-now-a-crime\">change in the law<\/a>\u00a0regarding forced marriages in England and Wales, there have been two cases where parents have been convicted of forcing their daughters to marry by taking them out of the country to their countries of origin.<\/p>\n<p>One case, in Birmingham in May 2018, involved taking a daughter to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-44211541\">Pakistan<\/a>, the other \u2013 in Leeds, also in May 2018 \u2013 involved a couple luring their daughter to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/forced-marriage-trial-parents-guilty-daughter-bangladesh-cousin-leeds-crown-court-latest-a8374071.html\">Bangladesh<\/a>\u00a0for a forced marriage. These were the first convictions of their kind in England. In 2015, a man was jailed for forced marriage (among other offences) after a Welsh court found he had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/11665908\/First-ever-forced-marriage-conviction-in-UK.html\">raped and blackmailed<\/a>\u00a0a woman into marrying him.<\/p>\n<p>These cases are remarkable, not least for the courage demonstrated by the young survivors in speaking out. But to what extent do these judgements represent justice in the eyes of those who have survived forced marriage \u2013 and what hurdles must they overcome to obtain it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/forced-marriage-convictions-are-welcome-but-for-many-victims-stigma-is-still-judge-and-jury-97635\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/forced-marriage-convictions-are-welcome-but-for-many-victims-stigma-is-still-judge-and-jury-97635<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the four years since a\u00a0change in the law\u00a0regarding forced marriages in England and Wales, there have been two cases where parents have been convicted of forcing their daughters to marry by taking them out of the country to their countries of origin. One case, in Birmingham in May 2018, involved taking a daughter to\u00a0Pakistan, [&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-1535","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\/1535","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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}