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

Survivors of forced marriage fear cases will remain underground, despite a new minimum-age law designed to crack down on children being married.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024

The specialist charity said it provided support to a total of 2,346 cases in the same period, including 417 people who were facing forced marriage.

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

Taken prisoner by his successor, the tyrant Berengarius, she is immured in a castle on the Lago di Garda, and threatened with a forced marriage with the son of her oppressor.

From Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens by Kemp-Welch, Alice