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Force Marriages' Extraordinary Renditions

Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 April 2008 21:54

The issue of Forced Marriages has been in the press again recently following the results of a study into them in Luton, it revealed that the government's estimates were out by a factor of 10, previously suggesting 300 a year, which has now been revised to up to 4,000:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/11/gender.communities

This response by Yvonne Roberts argues strongly that such estimations, despite raising moments of wider media awareness play into long term stereotypes, and do not help in the real practical sense of how to get a grip on numbers.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/yvonne_roberts/2008/03/forced_marriages_who_counts.html