{"id":255,"date":"2013-09-06T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:37:28","slug":"national-helpline-to-discourage-forced-marriages-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/national-helpline-to-discourage-forced-marriages-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"National helpline to discourage forced marriages in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-1\" rel=\"national|1\"><\/a>national\u00a0help line on the issue has been launched by the forced\u00a0marriage\u00a0unit at\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-2\" rel=\"home office|2\"><\/a>Home Office\u00a0London\u00a0in order to discourage the menace of the issue of forced\u00a0marriages\u00a0through civil legislature and with the coordination of the civil society. This was disclosed here yesterday by Ms. Victoria White, the visiting Caseworker of the British Foreign &amp; Common Wealth office in\u00a0London\u00a0while addressing a\u00a0news conference\u00a0here on Tuesday during her day-long official trip to this\u00a0city\u00a0of over a million Britain-based Kashmiri expatriates.<\/p>\n<p>The British diplomat was accompanied by Albert David, Consular Operations in the British\u00a0High Commission\u00a0and Mrs. Neelam Farooq, head of Consular Operations, British\u00a0High CommissionIslamabad and other two-member official team of the experts from the BHC. She pointed out least 47 percent of the total of 1500 cases of forced\u00a0marriages\u00a0from various countries,\u00a0registered\u00a0with the Forced\u00a0Marriage\u00a0Unit of the British\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-3\" rel=\"home office|3\"><\/a>Home office\u00a0in\u00a0London, belong to Pakistan, mostly Azad Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pakobserver.net\/detailnews.asp?id=217156\">http:\/\/pakobserver.net\/detailnews.asp?id=217156<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0national\u00a0help line on the issue has been launched by the forced\u00a0marriage\u00a0unit at\u00a0Home Office\u00a0London\u00a0in order to discourage the menace of the issue of forced\u00a0marriages\u00a0through civil legislature and with the coordination of the civil society. This was disclosed here yesterday by Ms. Victoria White, the visiting Caseworker of the British Foreign &amp; Common Wealth office in\u00a0London\u00a0while addressing [&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":[52,19,7,4,3,8],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fmu","tag-forced","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-honour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}