Monday, July 24, 2006

ONE FORCED MARRIAGE A DAY IN LONDON

THE lives of young women might be ruined by the Government’s failure to make forced marriages illegal, a senior police officer has warned.
Commander Steve Allen of the Metropolitan Police said that a decision by ministers last month to drop proposed legislation had been greeted by some ethnic minorities as a signal that forced marriage was acceptable.

Forced marriage law ‘not needed’.

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