Latest items for MARR-PRACTICE-1
Feb. 20, 2025, 9:55 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"It was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kabul to pick up her wages. She had no way of knowing that in just a few hours, her life as she knew it would be over. She would end the day in a Taliban police station, a victim of forced marriage with her entire future decided for her by a group of strangers with guns" (para 1-2). "That day, Samira says, she was 'frozen with fear' as they approached her. 'They asked, ‘Who is this man [her employer] to you? Why are you alone? What...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"It was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kabul to pick up her wages. She had no way of knowing that in just a few hours, her life as she knew it would be over. She would end the day in a Taliban police station, a victim of forced marriage with her entire future decided for her by a group of strangers with guns" (para 1-2). "That day, Samira says, she was 'frozen with fear' as they approached her. 'They asked, ‘Who is this man [her employer] to you? Why are you alone? What...more
Feb. 19, 2025, 6:34 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"But a large majority of the kidnapped women - 28,222 - were taken away to 'compel her for marriage'. Experts say many of these cases are false and are filed by families of women who elope with their lovers despite parental disapproval" (para 24-25).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"But a large majority of the kidnapped women - 28,222 - were taken away to 'compel her for marriage'. Experts say many of these cases are false and are filed by families of women who elope with their lovers despite parental disapproval" (para 24-25).
Feb. 19, 2025, 6:02 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Softly spoken and shy, Vidya says she never wanted a husband, but her father told her she didn’t have a choice and arranged for her to marry at 19" (para 42). "Of the 10 women CNN spoke with, at least four were in marriages arranged by their parents before they turned 18 – a decision they said they could not refuse. Only two women chose their husbands themselves" (para 64).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Softly spoken and shy, Vidya says she never wanted a husband, but her father told her she didn’t have a choice and arranged for her to marry at 19" (para 42). "Of the 10 women CNN spoke with, at least four were in marriages arranged by their parents before they turned 18 – a decision they said they could not refuse. Only two women chose their husbands themselves" (para 64).
Feb. 11, 2025, 9:54 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch and other organizations documented a system of organized rape, sexual slavery, and forced marriage by Islamic State (also known as ISIS) forces of Yezidi women and girls. However, in our research we found no case where an ISIS member has been prosecuted or convicted for those specific crimes" (1).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch and other organizations documented a system of organized rape, sexual slavery, and forced marriage by Islamic State (also known as ISIS) forces of Yezidi women and girls. However, in our research we found no case where an ISIS member has been prosecuted or convicted for those specific crimes" (1).
Feb. 6, 2025, 7:27 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Child and forced marriages continue to take place in the form of 'Al-Fatiha' marriage" (7).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Child and forced marriages continue to take place in the form of 'Al-Fatiha' marriage" (7).
Feb. 4, 2025, 1:53 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1, TRAFF-PRACTICE-2, TRAFF-DATA-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch has documented bride trafficking in Myanmar, where each year hundreds of women and girls are deceived through false promises of employment into traveling to China, only to be sold to Chinese families as brides and forced into sexual slavery, often for years. Most were pressured to become pregnant as quickly as possible; some were compelled to undergo forced fertility treatment. Those with children who were lucky enough to escape could usually only do so by leaving their children behind. Several of the interviewed women had been trafficked multiple times. Reports have found that bride trafficking occurs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Vietnam...more
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1, TRAFF-PRACTICE-2, TRAFF-DATA-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch has documented bride trafficking in Myanmar, where each year hundreds of women and girls are deceived through false promises of employment into traveling to China, only to be sold to Chinese families as brides and forced into sexual slavery, often for years. Most were pressured to become pregnant as quickly as possible; some were compelled to undergo forced fertility treatment. Those with children who were lucky enough to escape could usually only do so by leaving their children behind. Several of the interviewed women had been trafficked multiple times. Reports have found that bride trafficking occurs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Vietnam...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 9:51 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch has documented bride trafficking in Myanmar, where each year hundreds of women and girls are deceived through false promises of employment into traveling to China, only to be sold to Chinese families as brides and forced into sexual slavery, often for years" (9).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Human Rights Watch has documented bride trafficking in Myanmar, where each year hundreds of women and girls are deceived through false promises of employment into traveling to China, only to be sold to Chinese families as brides and forced into sexual slavery, often for years" (9).
Feb. 3, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The Iranian Statistical Center has stopped publishing birth statistics by maternal age since March 2023. However, available data indicate that between 2016 and 2022, an average of 1,438 births per year in Iran were recorded where the mother was under the age of 15" (Para 7). When a girl becomes pregnant before the age of 15, it can be inferred that she was married before that age. In a patriarchal society, such early marriages are likely to be forced and arranged, with little to no consideration of her consent or will (UST - CODERS COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The Iranian Statistical Center has stopped publishing birth statistics by maternal age since March 2023. However, available data indicate that between 2016 and 2022, an average of 1,438 births per year in Iran were recorded where the mother was under the age of 15" (Para 7). When a girl becomes pregnant before the age of 15, it can be inferred that she was married before that age. In a patriarchal society, such early marriages are likely to be forced and arranged, with little to no consideration of her consent or will (UST - CODERS COMMENT).
Feb. 3, 2025, 1 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, DV-DATA-1
"The Met recorded 1,213 cases: 514 of violence; two attempted murders; 32 rapes; 310 of forced marriage and 49 of female genital mutilation. Greater Manchester police's tally of 729 cases included 42 of rape, 65 assaults causing actual bodily harm, 56 forced marriage offences, 104 of assault and battery and 153 of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship. West Midlands recorded 729 cases: 115 of coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship; 27 of rape; 19 forced marriages and 90 threats to kill" (Para 10, 11, 12).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, DV-DATA-1
"The Met recorded 1,213 cases: 514 of violence; two attempted murders; 32 rapes; 310 of forced marriage and 49 of female genital mutilation. Greater Manchester police's tally of 729 cases included 42 of rape, 65 assaults causing actual bodily harm, 56 forced marriage offences, 104 of assault and battery and 153 of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship. West Midlands recorded 729 cases: 115 of coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship; 27 of rape; 19 forced marriages and 90 threats to kill" (Para 10, 11, 12).
Jan. 30, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Bhimappa was not yet ten years old when she became a 'devadasi' – girls coerced by their parents into an elaborate wedding ritual with a Hindu deity, many of whom are then forced into illegal prostitution" (para 2).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Bhimappa was not yet ten years old when she became a 'devadasi' – girls coerced by their parents into an elaborate wedding ritual with a Hindu deity, many of whom are then forced into illegal prostitution" (para 2).
Jan. 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"[T]he law is vague and does not fully account for the ways by which women and girls were systemically and en masse forced or otherwise coerced into marriages with Daesh fighters. This gap is a particular risk as Iraq continues to prosecute people for 'membership or support' of a terrorist organization, potentially including women and girls whose only 'membership or support' of Daesh was having been forcibly married to a Daesh fighter. Although forced marriage is prohibited, the Iraqi Government makes few efforts to enforce the law, and traditional forced marriages of girls continue, especially in rural and Daesh-controlled areas" (5). "This breadth allows for the gendered harms perpetrated by...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"[T]he law is vague and does not fully account for the ways by which women and girls were systemically and en masse forced or otherwise coerced into marriages with Daesh fighters. This gap is a particular risk as Iraq continues to prosecute people for 'membership or support' of a terrorist organization, potentially including women and girls whose only 'membership or support' of Daesh was having been forcibly married to a Daesh fighter. Although forced marriage is prohibited, the Iraqi Government makes few efforts to enforce the law, and traditional forced marriages of girls continue, especially in rural and Daesh-controlled areas" (5). "This breadth allows for the gendered harms perpetrated by...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:46 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"As soon as I hit puberty and my body shape started to change, relatives and friends of the family advised me to watch what I was eating and to avoid getting fat or else no one would marry me. Sometimes this was said as a joke, but mostly it was serious. After warnings about gaining weight – especially as I was not tall, and a different shape to my sister, who was naturally slender – I started to control what I was eating, often allowing myself only half a roti for an entire day" (par. 6). "Matrimonial adverts – where families look for suitable matches for arranged marriages – often...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"As soon as I hit puberty and my body shape started to change, relatives and friends of the family advised me to watch what I was eating and to avoid getting fat or else no one would marry me. Sometimes this was said as a joke, but mostly it was serious. After warnings about gaining weight – especially as I was not tall, and a different shape to my sister, who was naturally slender – I started to control what I was eating, often allowing myself only half a roti for an entire day" (par. 6). "Matrimonial adverts – where families look for suitable matches for arranged marriages – often...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"At only 14, Maryam [Afghani girl] has been forced to become engaged to her landlord’s son in exchange for a well and solar panels, after her family could not find work" (para 15).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"At only 14, Maryam [Afghani girl] has been forced to become engaged to her landlord’s son in exchange for a well and solar panels, after her family could not find work" (para 15).
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The adolescent care module includes psychological care, and the violence screening checklist is applied with informed consent to detect cases of rights violations, including cases of child, early and forced marriage, and to provide individualized biopsychosocial care in cases of depression (stress, early pregnancy and marital and family pressures), domestic violence, anxiety (low self-esteem, stress, insecurity) and sexual abuse" (28).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The adolescent care module includes psychological care, and the violence screening checklist is applied with informed consent to detect cases of rights violations, including cases of child, early and forced marriage, and to provide individualized biopsychosocial care in cases of depression (stress, early pregnancy and marital and family pressures), domestic violence, anxiety (low self-esteem, stress, insecurity) and sexual abuse" (28).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-LAW-1
"Article 544 of the Italian criminal code recognized a kind of marriage, the matrimonio riparatore, that would forgive the man for his crime and restore to the 'damaged' victim her honor and that of her family. Should she refuse to marry her abductor, the young woman would be further victimized as an unmarriagable outcast somehow to blame for her unfortunate circumstances" (para 6).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-LAW-1
"Article 544 of the Italian criminal code recognized a kind of marriage, the matrimonio riparatore, that would forgive the man for his crime and restore to the 'damaged' victim her honor and that of her family. Should she refuse to marry her abductor, the young woman would be further victimized as an unmarriagable outcast somehow to blame for her unfortunate circumstances" (para 6).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13 in Pakistan, who are forced to marry and convert to Islam. In their appeal to the authorities to stop the alleged abuse, the experts warned that teenagers had been 'kidnapped from their families, trafficked … far from their homes (and) made to marry men sometimes twice their age'" (para 1-2). "They [the UN experts] said they were 'very concerned' that marriages and conversions have taken place 'under threat of violence to these girls and women or their families.' 'Abductors force their victims to sign documents which falsely attest to their...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13 in Pakistan, who are forced to marry and convert to Islam. In their appeal to the authorities to stop the alleged abuse, the experts warned that teenagers had been 'kidnapped from their families, trafficked … far from their homes (and) made to marry men sometimes twice their age'" (para 1-2). "They [the UN experts] said they were 'very concerned' that marriages and conversions have taken place 'under threat of violence to these girls and women or their families.' 'Abductors force their victims to sign documents which falsely attest to their...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
Countries: Niger
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Three out of four girls in Niger marry before their 18th birthday, the highest rate of child marriage in the world" (para 5). As child marriage is marriage without consent, that means three-fourths of girls in Niger are married against their will (MB2-CODER COMMENT). "'I came back from school one day and my parents told me a rich man had come from the village to marry me,' she says. 'I said I wanted to stay in school, but my parents refused.' The marriage took place one week later, without her knowledge. The next day she was sent to live with her husband’s family, who put her to work doing domestic...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Three out of four girls in Niger marry before their 18th birthday, the highest rate of child marriage in the world" (para 5). As child marriage is marriage without consent, that means three-fourths of girls in Niger are married against their will (MB2-CODER COMMENT). "'I came back from school one day and my parents told me a rich man had come from the village to marry me,' she says. 'I said I wanted to stay in school, but my parents refused.' The marriage took place one week later, without her knowledge. The next day she was sent to live with her husband’s family, who put her to work doing domestic...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:18 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Ravneet (Neeti) Kaur was introduced to Pawandeep Singh Sawhney in 2001. Neeti was about twenty years old; Pawan was about twenty-five. Their parents had decided that they would be a good match. They went for a walk at Gurdwara Nanak Piao, a famous Sikh temple in Delhi, after which Neeti informed her father that she was not interested. 'She was forced by everybody to say yes,' Preeti told me" (para 12-13). "My mother went through something similar. Like Neeti, she had an arranged marriage. She had just completed a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Delhi and was looking forward to teaching when a proposal arrived at...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Ravneet (Neeti) Kaur was introduced to Pawandeep Singh Sawhney in 2001. Neeti was about twenty years old; Pawan was about twenty-five. Their parents had decided that they would be a good match. They went for a walk at Gurdwara Nanak Piao, a famous Sikh temple in Delhi, after which Neeti informed her father that she was not interested. 'She was forced by everybody to say yes,' Preeti told me" (para 12-13). "My mother went through something similar. Like Neeti, she had an arranged marriage. She had just completed a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Delhi and was looking forward to teaching when a proposal arrived at...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Fourteen theatrical educational programs reached 1,400 people on issues related to sexual and gender-based violence, including street harassment and dating violence, early and forced marriage, public bullying, healthy behaviour, and sexual reproductive health and rights in an accessible and engaging way" (p. 25). This suggest that forced marriages may occur within the country because it is an issue being addressed in educational programs (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Fourteen theatrical educational programs reached 1,400 people on issues related to sexual and gender-based violence, including street harassment and dating violence, early and forced marriage, public bullying, healthy behaviour, and sexual reproductive health and rights in an accessible and engaging way" (p. 25). This suggest that forced marriages may occur within the country because it is an issue being addressed in educational programs (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:34 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In a historical first three men have faced court charged with arranging a forced marriage between two teenagers, one aged between 13 and 15 years and the other aged 17. It is alleged the two children in Western Australia wanted to date each other but were told by relatives that for cultural reasons, they would have to be married first. Three men - one related to the girl and the other two to the boy - faced Perth's Magistrates Court on Friday accused of forcing a person into a marriage after allegedly facilitating a religious wedding ceremony for the pair last year. Forced marriage has been illegal in Australia since...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In a historical first three men have faced court charged with arranging a forced marriage between two teenagers, one aged between 13 and 15 years and the other aged 17. It is alleged the two children in Western Australia wanted to date each other but were told by relatives that for cultural reasons, they would have to be married first. Three men - one related to the girl and the other two to the boy - faced Perth's Magistrates Court on Friday accused of forcing a person into a marriage after allegedly facilitating a religious wedding ceremony for the pair last year. Forced marriage has been illegal in Australia since...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:51 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The outdated and illegal custom, known as ghag – a Pashto word meaning proclamation that allows another man to forcibly claim a woman as his intended wife – had reared its head. A man called Mahabat Khan was trying to enforce a ghag on Bibi, and made it clear to the community in the tribal Bajaur district where they lived that he still intended to enforce it. Although Bibi and her family rejected Khan’s proposal when she was a child, she cannot marry anyone else, according to the custom" (para 2-4). "Ghag endures in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan. The claim is made by sending...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The outdated and illegal custom, known as ghag – a Pashto word meaning proclamation that allows another man to forcibly claim a woman as his intended wife – had reared its head. A man called Mahabat Khan was trying to enforce a ghag on Bibi, and made it clear to the community in the tribal Bajaur district where they lived that he still intended to enforce it. Although Bibi and her family rejected Khan’s proposal when she was a child, she cannot marry anyone else, according to the custom" (para 2-4). "Ghag endures in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan. The claim is made by sending...more
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night. Last year, the Rohingya girl sacrificed herself to save her family, embarking on a terrifying journey from her homeland of Myanmar to a country she had never seen, to marry a man she had never met. It wasn’t her choice. None of this was. Not the decision to leave behind everything she knew, nor the arranged marriage for which she was not ready. But her family, she says, was impoverished, hungry and...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night. Last year, the Rohingya girl sacrificed herself to save her family, embarking on a terrifying journey from her homeland of Myanmar to a country she had never seen, to marry a man she had never met. It wasn’t her choice. None of this was. Not the decision to leave behind everything she knew, nor the arranged marriage for which she was not ready. But her family, she says, was impoverished, hungry and...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:58 p.m.
Countries: Uganda
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"'Courtship rape' is commonplace, says Akello. 'Many women who are married are survivors of courtship rape and believe that men have a right to rape them as a sign of affection or expression of interest,' she says. In some cases, family members hold women down or help plot the abduction. Alice Nakiru was 20 when a friend of the family broke into her house, dragged her to his home and raped her repeatedly. He kept her for days. She screamed and begged but no one came to her rescue. 'That is how I became his wife,' says Nakiru, now 32, as she stirs porridge at home in Karamoja. 'I moved...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"'Courtship rape' is commonplace, says Akello. 'Many women who are married are survivors of courtship rape and believe that men have a right to rape them as a sign of affection or expression of interest,' she says. In some cases, family members hold women down or help plot the abduction. Alice Nakiru was 20 when a friend of the family broke into her house, dragged her to his home and raped her repeatedly. He kept her for days. She screamed and begged but no one came to her rescue. 'That is how I became his wife,' says Nakiru, now 32, as she stirs porridge at home in Karamoja. 'I moved...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:40 a.m.
Countries: Mauritania
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"When another resident of Ouadane, Lakwailia Rweijil, got married for the first time as a teenager, her father held the wedding ceremony without her knowledge, informing her afterward" (para 17).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"When another resident of Ouadane, Lakwailia Rweijil, got married for the first time as a teenager, her father held the wedding ceremony without her knowledge, informing her afterward" (para 17).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Official statistics on marriages involving under 18s can only capture legally-binding ceremonies. However, child marriage may involve informal services, which are not legally recognised but where youngsters are forced to live with an adult and act as their spouse. In 2021, the government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) reported intervening in 337 cases relating to forced marriage, female genital mutilation or both. Almost all (316) were solely about forced marriage. Of these 337 cases, 118 involved victims aged under 18, including 75 aged 15 or under. The FMU says cases involving younger children may not involve imminent marriages, but can often involve a youngster being promised for a future marriage. They...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"Official statistics on marriages involving under 18s can only capture legally-binding ceremonies. However, child marriage may involve informal services, which are not legally recognised but where youngsters are forced to live with an adult and act as their spouse. In 2021, the government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) reported intervening in 337 cases relating to forced marriage, female genital mutilation or both. Almost all (316) were solely about forced marriage. Of these 337 cases, 118 involved victims aged under 18, including 75 aged 15 or under. The FMU says cases involving younger children may not involve imminent marriages, but can often involve a youngster being promised for a future marriage. They...more
Dec. 5, 2024, 6:08 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, AOM-PRACTICE-1
"Amina comes from Isfara, in the northern Sughd region, but moved to the capital, Dushanbe, with her parents a long time ago. After she finished ninth grade, her parents married her off. 'They chose a husband for me. I didn't even know what he looked like, but I knew he was two years older than me,' Amina said" (para 10-11).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, AOM-PRACTICE-1
"Amina comes from Isfara, in the northern Sughd region, but moved to the capital, Dushanbe, with her parents a long time ago. After she finished ninth grade, her parents married her off. 'They chose a husband for me. I didn't even know what he looked like, but I knew he was two years older than me,' Amina said" (para 10-11).
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:26 p.m.
Countries: Malta
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The Directorate for Child Protection Services identified a case of a forced marriage where an underage girl was wed for €5,000. "She was not old enough to get married, but her family basically promised to wed her when she was of legal age,” director Steve Libreri from the Directorate for Child Protection Services said" (para 1,2). "Libreri [from the Directorate for Child Protextive Services] said research by the directorate shows underage women are “sold” in a “promise of wedding” at very young ages. He also highlighted how individuals involved in the practice are so immersed in their community’s culture, that they find no issue with the arranged marriages. 'It is...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The Directorate for Child Protection Services identified a case of a forced marriage where an underage girl was wed for €5,000. "She was not old enough to get married, but her family basically promised to wed her when she was of legal age,” director Steve Libreri from the Directorate for Child Protection Services said" (para 1,2). "Libreri [from the Directorate for Child Protextive Services] said research by the directorate shows underage women are “sold” in a “promise of wedding” at very young ages. He also highlighted how individuals involved in the practice are so immersed in their community’s culture, that they find no issue with the arranged marriages. 'It is...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:03 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, ATDW-LAW-2, ADCM-LAW-1, CUST-LAW-1
"Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, ATDW-LAW-2, ADCM-LAW-1, CUST-LAW-1
"Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:54 p.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The draft law aims to criminalise underage marriages due to children’s lack of health and mental ability to bear the consequences of marriage" (para 1). Indicates that children are getting married, and that the government recognizes it as a problem, also, child marriages are forced marriages, by definition (MB-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1
"The draft law aims to criminalise underage marriages due to children’s lack of health and mental ability to bear the consequences of marriage" (para 1). Indicates that children are getting married, and that the government recognizes it as a problem, also, child marriages are forced marriages, by definition (MB-CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, ATDW-LAW-2, ADCM-LAW-1, CUST-LAW-1
"Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-1, ATDW-LAW-2, ADCM-LAW-1, CUST-LAW-1
"Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).