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
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
In this it seems clear that ordinary public opinion is in the right, not because people choose wisely, but because any choice of their own is better than a forced marriage.
From Political Ideals by Bertrand Russell
