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UN Urges Pak For Action On Coerced Religious Conversions, Forced Marriage
The United Nations expressed alarm at the spike in the number of abductions, forced marriages, and conversions of minor women from religious minorities in Pakistan and called for immediate efforts to prevent this crime and ensure justice for victim.
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50 Million People Trapped In "Modern Slavery", Says UN
Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said today, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years.
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UN Report Takes Note Of Initiatives In India To Combat Child, Forced Marriages
A report of the UN Secretary General on child and forced marriages has taken note of national policies and capacity-building initiatives taken in India to promote gender and child-sensitive health services, including for girls subjected to such alliances, and "promising experiences" about supporting those affected by the practices.
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Kidnapped For Marriage, Mali Pupils Join Forces To Save Classmates
When Fatmata was kidnapped from a market in Mali last year, she was scared for her life. When the Malian schoolgirl realised she would be forced to marry her captor, she feared for her future.
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India Second on List of Forced Marriage Cases in UK
India has emerged second after Pakistan in terms of countries of origin where British nationals are forced into marriage, a crime in the UK.
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Opinion: Janata Parivar's Struggle For Relevance
The Janata Parivar merger has finally been announced. Six primarily family (parivar) driven regional outfits have come together in a seemingly forced marriage of convenience, hoping to create an alternate pole to the BJP.
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UK Makes Forced Marriage Illegal as Pursues Campaign of 'British Values'
Forcing women, men and children into marriage was made a criminal act in Britain on Monday as the government escalated a campaign to promote "British values" of freedom and equality and combat accusations of being too lenient on extremism.
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US Woman Found 10 Years After Kidnapping: Police
A woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her California home a decade ago has contacted police and told them she was kidnapped by a man who sexually assaulted her, forced her into marriage and fathered a child with her, authorities said Wednesday.
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Three arrested in Kerala over forced marriage of minor girl
After an appeal for justice made by a 17-year-old teen who was forced to marry a UAE national by a Muslim orphanage in Kerala, police have arrested three accused in the case.
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Kerala teen forced to marry a man from UAE, sexually abused and abandoned
Till June this year, she lived in an orphanage in Kozhikode and dreamt of a better life by studying further. Then, says a 17-year-old in Kerala, she was forced into marriage with a man from the United Arab Emirates, who sexually abused her for two weeks and abandoned her.
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Britain issues forced marriage alert
The British government on Saturday warned teachers, doctors and airport staff to be on alert for a rise in forced marriages over the school summer holidays.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth might have to break sovereign promise
The impending gay marriage legislation could force Queen Elizabeth II to break a sovereign promise, former senior UK bishop has warned. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, who was Bishop of Rochester for 15 years, said the Queen took an oath to "uphold God's laws" when she was crowned.
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UN Urges Pak For Action On Coerced Religious Conversions, Forced Marriage
The United Nations expressed alarm at the spike in the number of abductions, forced marriages, and conversions of minor women from religious minorities in Pakistan and called for immediate efforts to prevent this crime and ensure justice for victim.
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50 Million People Trapped In "Modern Slavery", Says UN
Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said today, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years.
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UN Report Takes Note Of Initiatives In India To Combat Child, Forced Marriages
A report of the UN Secretary General on child and forced marriages has taken note of national policies and capacity-building initiatives taken in India to promote gender and child-sensitive health services, including for girls subjected to such alliances, and "promising experiences" about supporting those affected by the practices.
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Kidnapped For Marriage, Mali Pupils Join Forces To Save Classmates
When Fatmata was kidnapped from a market in Mali last year, she was scared for her life. When the Malian schoolgirl realised she would be forced to marry her captor, she feared for her future.
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India Second on List of Forced Marriage Cases in UK
India has emerged second after Pakistan in terms of countries of origin where British nationals are forced into marriage, a crime in the UK.
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Opinion: Janata Parivar's Struggle For Relevance
The Janata Parivar merger has finally been announced. Six primarily family (parivar) driven regional outfits have come together in a seemingly forced marriage of convenience, hoping to create an alternate pole to the BJP.
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UK Makes Forced Marriage Illegal as Pursues Campaign of 'British Values'
Forcing women, men and children into marriage was made a criminal act in Britain on Monday as the government escalated a campaign to promote "British values" of freedom and equality and combat accusations of being too lenient on extremism.
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US Woman Found 10 Years After Kidnapping: Police
A woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her California home a decade ago has contacted police and told them she was kidnapped by a man who sexually assaulted her, forced her into marriage and fathered a child with her, authorities said Wednesday.
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Three arrested in Kerala over forced marriage of minor girl
After an appeal for justice made by a 17-year-old teen who was forced to marry a UAE national by a Muslim orphanage in Kerala, police have arrested three accused in the case.
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Kerala teen forced to marry a man from UAE, sexually abused and abandoned
Till June this year, she lived in an orphanage in Kozhikode and dreamt of a better life by studying further. Then, says a 17-year-old in Kerala, she was forced into marriage with a man from the United Arab Emirates, who sexually abused her for two weeks and abandoned her.
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Britain issues forced marriage alert
The British government on Saturday warned teachers, doctors and airport staff to be on alert for a rise in forced marriages over the school summer holidays.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth might have to break sovereign promise
The impending gay marriage legislation could force Queen Elizabeth II to break a sovereign promise, former senior UK bishop has warned. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, who was Bishop of Rochester for 15 years, said the Queen took an oath to "uphold God's laws" when she was crowned.
