{"id":538,"date":"2014-03-18T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:25:40","slug":"how-many-forced-marriages-in-finland-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/how-many-forced-marriages-in-finland-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"How many forced marriages in Finland annually?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its Sunday edition, the Tampere paper Aamulehti interviews Nasima Razmyar, chair of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monikanaiset.fi\/index.php\/otherlng\">Multicultural Women\u2019s Association Monika<\/a>, an NGO aimed at supporting immigrant women in Finland. She believes that dozens of young women or men based in Finland are forced into marriage with someone of their parents\u2019 choosing annually.<\/p>\n<p>Razmyar bases her estimate on her own contacts among immigrants. She notes that dozens of immigrant women and girls seek protection at women\u2019s shelters annually, and believes that this is just a fraction of those who need help.<\/p>\n<p>Sini Maria Heikkil\u00e4, Advocacy Coordinator at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihmisoikeuskeskus.fi\/in-english\/human-rights-actors-in-finland\/non-governmental-organisations\/\">Finnish League for Human Rights<\/a>, says that the number of forced marriages in Finland must be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/how_many_forced_marriages_in_finland_annually\/7139704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its Sunday edition, the Tampere paper Aamulehti interviews Nasima Razmyar, chair of theMulticultural Women\u2019s Association Monika, an NGO aimed at supporting immigrant women in Finland. She believes that dozens of young women or men based in Finland are forced into marriage with someone of their parents\u2019 choosing annually. Razmyar bases her estimate on her [&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":[123,7,4,10],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-finland","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}