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

The Home Office is set to build on the feasibility study by the universities, by testing and developing the tool to measure forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

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

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 Haggard, Henry Rider