Author: Forced Marriage Unit (United Kingdom)

This fact sheet provides statistics from the Forced Marriage Unit in the UK between January and December 2013, including the number of cases they handled and general demographics of service seekers who reached out to the Forced Marriage Unit for assistance.

Author: Forced Marriage Unit (United Kingdom)

This fact sheet provides statistics from the Forced Marriage Unit in the UK between January and December 2012, including the number of cases they handled and general demographics of service seekers who reached out to the Forced Marriage Unit for assistance.

Author: Karma Nirvana

Publication: August 2008

This report presents statistics gathered from the Karma Nirvana Forced Marriage and Honor Violence hotline in the UK from it’s inception on April 11th, 2008 to August 11th, 2008.

This webinar features Anne-Marie Hutchinson, partner at Dawson Cornwell Solicitors in London and one of England’s leading family lawyers representing potential victims and threatened victims of female genital mutilation, honour based violence, and forced marriage. In this webinar Anne-Marie provides an overview of forced marriage in the UK including statistics from the Forced Marriage Unit, as well as a dissection of the criminalization debate.  She also provides analysis of the issue of abandoned spouses as well as the utility and effectiveness of the UK forced marriage protection order.

This webinar was presented as part of the Forced Marriage Initiative’s Quarterly Webinar Series on November 13th, 2013.

*Due to technical difficulties the recording of the webinar is not available here. Please contact us at FMI@tahirih.org for more information.