India ranked next to Pakistan in forced marriages in the United Kingdom. What’s more shocking is that India is “worse” than Bangladesh and Afghanistan in the forced marriages. In terms of countries of origin where British nationals are forced into marriage, the aforementioned details were found by UK’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU).
It’s been a year, forced marriages were criminalized in Briain and it took the matter seriously ever since. According to FMU, the percentage of origin of British nationals in forced marriages is as follows: Pakistan (38.3 per cent), India (7.8 per cent), Bangladesh (7.1 per cent), Afghanistan (3 per cent), Somalia (1.6 per cent), Turkey (1.1 per cent), Sri Lanka (1.1 per cent), Iran (1 per cent) and Iraq (0.7 per cent).
The law is designed to help people in Britain as well as UK nationals overseas against the devastating effects of forced marriage such as physical, psychological, emotional, financial and sexual abuse including being held unlawfully captive, assaulted and raped.
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