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

To change this, the Home Office has said it will pilot a prevalence study looking at how widespread forced marriage is, as part of a raft of measures to crack down on honour-based abuse.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

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

Personally, I was relieved not to bear witness to another forced marriage between script and score.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

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