forced marriage
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When AFP visited Ibrahim's set last year, he was filming season two of "Wata Shida", a series about a woman confronted with the prospect of a forced marriage.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
In Norway, where cousin marriage was banned last year, lawmakers said the practice was linked to forced marriage, with some South Asian immigrant women coerced into unions with relatives.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Roshni, set up in 1979, supports minority communities affected by domestic violence, forced marriage and honour-based abuse.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024
“Arranged marriage sometimes gets conflated with forced marriage, but I see them as different things,” Khan explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
So we settled on it in preference to surrender, which we knew meant death to ourselves, and for Maqueda a choice between that last grim solution of her troubles and a forced marriage.
From Queen Sheba's Ring by Henry Rider Haggard
