{"id":482,"date":"2014-01-23T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:41:30","slug":"syrian-refugees-forced-to-let-lebanese-landlord-marry-their-14-year-old-daughter-because-they-cannot-afford-the-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/syrian-refugees-forced-to-let-lebanese-landlord-marry-their-14-year-old-daughter-because-they-cannot-afford-the-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugees forced to let Lebanese landlord marry their 14-year-old daughter because they cannot afford the rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A 14-year-old girl who escaped the bloody fighting in Syria is being forced to marry a 44-year-old stranger in exchange for her family&#8217;s safe refuge across the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hanifa Amar&#8217;s parents say they can no longer afford the $250 (\u00a3150) monthly rent at a house they fled to in neighbouring Lebanon.\u00a0<\/span>The landlord has agreed to let them stay, but only if Hanifa becomes his second wife.Wiping away tears, Hanifa told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/middleeast\/2014\/01\/syrian-refugee-girl-marries-pay-rent-201411563349202804.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Al Jazeera<\/a>: &#8216;My whole life is destroyed. I don&#8217;t want to marry him, but if I do my family can stay in this house.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>The teenager had hoped to marry her 22-year-old cousin, but he died fighting in Syria last year.\u00a0<\/span>Instead, she now has to take desperate measures to help her family survive after they were threatened with eviction.\u00a0Her mother, Mysa, says they cannot risk moving into a tent because her husband suffers from heart problems and she fears her asthmatic son could die in the bitter cold.<\/p>\n<p><span>Her other son, who is 12, earns the little money they have by helping a mechanic, but this is barely enough to pay for food.\u00a0<\/span>Mrs Amar said: &#8216;No mother wants to hurt her child, but we have no choice.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2539732\/Syrian-refugees-forced-let-Lebanese-landlord-marry-14-year-old-daughter-afford-rent.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2539732\/Syrian-refugees-forced-let-Lebanese-landlord-marry-14-year-old-daughter-afford-rent.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old girl who escaped the bloody fighting in Syria is being forced to marry a 44-year-old stranger in exchange for her family&#8217;s safe refuge across the border. Hanifa Amar&#8217;s parents say they can no longer afford the $250 (\u00a3150) monthly rent at a house they fled to in neighbouring Lebanon.\u00a0The landlord has agreed to [&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":[23,7,4,3,9],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-child-marriage-act","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}