It happens here: Underage forced marriage in suburban Australia




Croatian show

Summary: Since it was criminalised in 2013, there's been a five-fold increase in the number of suspected forced marriage cases being reported to police in Australia.   And one young woman who escaped such an arrangement has called for more support to be offered to those who risk isolation from their families when they speak up.   (Od 2013. godine, otkad se prisilni brak u Australiji smatra zločinom, policiji je prijavljeno pet puta više sumnjivih brakova nego prije. Jedna je mlada žena, koja je i sama pobjegla iz takve situacije, uputila apel da se pomogne osobama koje javno progovore i kojih se vlastite obitelji zbog toga odriču.)