{"id":218,"date":"2013-08-13T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:13:17","slug":"keighley-mp-backs-crackdown-on-forced-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/keighley-mp-backs-crackdown-on-forced-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Keighley MP backs crackdown on forced marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keighley MP Kris Hopkins is backing a crackdown on forced marriages.\u00a0He is supporting a government campaign raising awareness of the practice, which figures show is more prevalent during the summer months.\u00a0Last year the government&#8217;s Forced Marriage Unit dealt with 400 reported cases between June and August.\u00a0It is feared many unsuspecting teenagers are taken abroad believing they are going on holiday, but instead are forced to marry.\u00a0\u201cWe must do all we can to end this shameful abuse \u2013 very often of young girls being forced into relations with older men,\u201d said Mr Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keighleynews.co.uk\/news\/news_keighley\/10605332.Keighley_MP_backs_crackdown_on_forced_marriages\/\">http:\/\/www.keighleynews.co.uk\/news\/news_keighley\/10605332.Keighley_MP_backs_crackdown_on_forced_marriages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keighley MP Kris Hopkins is backing a crackdown on forced marriages.\u00a0He is supporting a government campaign raising awareness of the practice, which figures show is more prevalent during the summer months.\u00a0Last year the government&#8217;s Forced Marriage Unit dealt with 400 reported cases between June and August.\u00a0It is feared many unsuspecting teenagers are taken abroad believing [&hellip;]<\/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":[19,7,53,4],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}