{"id":657,"date":"2014-10-20T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2014-10-20T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T09:39:49","slug":"forced-marriage-takes-center-stage-at-domestic-violence-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/forced-marriage-takes-center-stage-at-domestic-violence-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"FORCED MARRIAGE TAKES CENTER STAGE AT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dateline\" style=\"color: #000000;\">HOUSTON (KTRK) &#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The &#8220;Honoring our Heartbeats&#8221; tour to end forced marriages in the U.S. stopped in Houston on Thursday with a community forum and performance to highlight the issue.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In partnership with Houston NGO&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #234b86;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dayahouston.org\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"\">Daya and Voices Breaking Boundaries<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #234b86;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tahirih.org\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"\">Tahirih Justice Center<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #234b86;\" href=\"http:\/\/pomegranatetreegroup.ca\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"\">Pomegranate Tree Group<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0brought to life on stage a comic book about breaking free from a cycle of violence.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We look at it as a love letter to our communities. This comic book (and performance) is an opportunity for the community to heal together,&#8221; said Farrah Khan with Pomegranate Tree Group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/abc13.com\/family\/forced-marriage-takes-center-stage-at-conference\/354028\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (KTRK) &#8212; The &#8220;Honoring our Heartbeats&#8221; tour to end forced marriages in the U.S. stopped in Houston on Thursday with a community forum and performance to highlight the issue.\u00a0In partnership with Houston NGO&#8217;s\u00a0Daya and Voices Breaking Boundaries, the\u00a0Tahirih Justice Center\u00a0and\u00a0Pomegranate Tree Group\u00a0brought to life on stage a comic book about breaking free from a [&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":[7,4,161,9],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-u-s","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}