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

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

Roshni, set up in 1979, supports minority communities affected by domestic violence, forced marriage and honour-based abuse.

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

Although the term "forced marriage" has come to have the meaning given above, unions can be really forced where there has been no sex relation before marriage.

From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Colcord, Joanna C.