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

But charities like Karma Nirvana, which helps women affected by forced marriage, say the prosecution rates do not reflect the true number of victims.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

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

“Arranged marriage sometimes gets conflated with forced marriage, but I see them as different things,” Khan explains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

As he had foreseen, it required little persuasion to induce Oldcorne to lend his assistance to the forced marriage, and he only feared the decided opposition they should encounter from Viviana.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison