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Originally Posted by TarJak
Forced and arranged marriage is not restricted to Islamic culture. There are numerous cases here of out occurring in Hindu, Sikh and also Chinese families. Even more so in India and China.
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Yes, even here in my country, Italy, we have cases of forced marriage occurring well outside islamic cuture, as the ones you cited above. I'm trying to inform mysef better on this, it is the best thing I can done atm (and I think it is a very good thing everybody can do VS nothing).
I found an offical document from my governament (I looked in the gov site) about the matter and it ooks like the most neglected thing ATM about forced marriage is that most people doesn't even know of it. Even association (here in Italy) that helps women victims of violence only recently started to recognize that forced marriage is one potential cause behind many violence stories.
I also learnt from that document that the "Tackling Forced Marriage in the North East" that Jimbuna spoke about is currently the most "active thing" done in Europe in general to tackle the problem (even if in a local area, ATM).
I think that it would be a very positive thing if the general public will know of this phenomenon, I hope somebody coud be intrested to produce a good movie based on one of the real stories I red: they showed that the phenomenon is very complex, it has got many faces and aspects and is not a simple and easy thing to manage.