Friday, July 28, 2006

Despair as forced marriages stay legal / Times, 24 Jul 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2282623,00.html
Andrew Norfolk
A police chief accuses the Government of abandoning young women to a life of violence.
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."