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The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) is raising awareness of Forced Marriage amongst victims & professionals through Forced Marriage Awareness week.  School summer holidays are a peak time for young people to be taken overseas and forced into marriage against their will.  The FMU used social media to highlight this issue from 7-11 July.

Last year 40% of cases in which the FMU gave advice or support involved victims aged 17 or under. In some cases victims are taken on what they have been told is a holiday to visit family abroad, but in fact a marriage has been planned.  Once abroad, victims are often even more isolated than they might have been in the UK and getting help is more difficult.

• Forced Marriage Awareness Week
• Greening: End child marriage in a generation
• Maintaining the values that attract people to the UK
• Attempts to limit forced marriage must not adversely affect the right to family reunification
• Child molesting by another name (3rd item)