Forced Marriage

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. The Guardian: Compulsory Lessons Urged on Forced Marriage (June 13, 2008)
2. CNN: Teen Bride's Cry for Help Led to Raid (April 9, 2008)
3. Times Online: Forced Marriage Fear Prompts a National Count of Missing Girls (March 8, 2008)
4. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Forced Marriage  
5. BBC News: Call for Male Forced Wedding Help (February 2, 2008)
6. Guardian Unlimited: Stolen lives (May 23, 2001)
7. YouTube Video: Unholy Matrimony: Escape From Forced Marriage (Time: 2:13)

Forced Marriage Recent News Stories

• Google News: Forced Marriage
• Women's eNews: U.N., Lawmakers Urged to Curb Forced Marriages (March 10, 2008)
• Feminist Daily News: UN and US Lawmakers Fight Forced Marriage (February 26, 2008)
• HumanEvents.com: Forced Marriages and Unforeseen Consequences (February 25, 2008)
• The Guardian: Conservatives Would Criminalize Forced Marriages,.... (February 21, 2008)
• Population Council: Child Marriage/Married Adolescents (February 8, 2008)
• Reuters: ETHIOPIA: Surviving forced marriage (February 23, 2007)
• SF Gate: Germany Cracks Down on Forced Marriages (October 29, 2007)
• Women's eNews: Britain Debates Outlawing Forced Marriage (October 23, 2005)

Forced Marriage Background

• Department of Justice Canada: Forced Marriage
• TheStar.com: Bride says sex was way to flee forced marriage (September 18, 2007)
• The Seattle Times: Forced marriage detailed in polygamist's trial (September 15, 2007)
• BBC News: Tricked into a forced marriage (November 6, 2001)
• New York Times: Child Marriages, Though Illegal, Persist in India (May 11, 1998)  
• The New York Times: A forced marriage annuled (January 25, 1884)

Forced Marriage Commentary and Criticism

• Reuters: MALI: Child marriage a neglected problem (August 30, 2007)
• FrontPage Magazine: Forced Marriage Troubles (July 9, 2007)
• The Guardian: The government has betrayed Asian women (June 16, 2006)

Forced Marriage Message Boards and Blogs

• Islam Online: Britain Forced Marriage Nightmare (January 28, 2008)
• Appletree: International Women’s Day (March 8, 2008)
• Islam in Europe: UK: Men in Forced Marriages (November 7, 2007)
• ConservativeHome's ToryDiary: Damian Green proposes action against forced marriages (August 12, 2007)
• News From Norway: 2000 Girls Forced into Marriage (September 8, 2006)
• Western Resistance: Special Report: Muslim Forced Marriages In Europe (June 8, 2006)
• Zack Vision: Forced Marriage: Post #1 (March 19, 2003)

Forced Marriage Central Groups

• United Kingdom
  • Missdorothy.com: Survivors' Stories
  • Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood: Forced Marriage Condemned
  • Fox News: U.K. Cracks Down on Forced Marriage (March 11, 2008)
  • The Guardian: Forced marriage in UK 'a widespread problem' (March 9, 2008)
  • BBC News: Forced marriage law 'not needed' (June 7, 2006)

• Africa
  • UNHCR: Somalia: Prevalence of Forced or Arranged Marriages (October 30, 2006)
  • Forward: Child and Forced Marriage
  • Third World Traveler: Wanted: the right to refuse (August 2001)
  • BBC News: Africa's forced marriages (March 8, 2001)
  • UNICEF Statistics: Child Marriage (July 2008)

• United States
  • Chron.com: Polygamist Sect Leader Warren Jeffs Hospitalized (July 9, 2008)
  • Chron.com: Woman Sobs on Stand... (September 15, 2007)
  • Salt Lake Tribune: Jeffs Abused Trust of Teen, judge says (August 30, 2007)
  • ABC News: Polygamous Sect Leader Facing Charges in Arizona (August 26, 2008)
  • Guardian Unlimited: Leader of polygamist sect forced girl into marriage.. (November 23, 2006)
  • U.S Department of State: Poverty, Illiteracy, and Child Marriage (September 14, 2005)