Forced marriage 'morally and legally wrong' - Church of England
by Daniel Blake
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Forced marriage is "morally and legally wrong", the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council said on Monday in response to a Home Office consultation on ‘marriage to partners from overseas’.

A Home Office-funded study published this week revealed that forced marriages are far more widespread in the UK than official figures suggest. The study, which looked only at Luton, found that local community organisations were dealing with 300 forced marriage cases, far exceeding the findings of a previous study which stated that the Government’s forced marriage unit responds to 300 cases a year across the whole of the UK. the rest

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