Forced marriages

Any representative neither visited Israel nor govt has any plan to make ties with Jewish state, says Tahir Ashrafi

More than 20 Hindu girls are kidnapped and forcefully converted every month in the name of marriage

Up to 80 per cent of people affected were women, while 20 per cent were men

Practice of ‘ghag’ was banned in 2013 after the efforts of a man on a mission to save his daughters

Since 2014, forced marriage has been a crime in Britain carrying a maximum seven-year prison sentence

China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to decades-long one-child policy

Police officers say strict parenting may force adolescents to elope

Film deals with forced marriages

Zhagh is a custom where man lays claim to marriage with woman by firing gunshots outside her door, shouting her name

Melbourne magistrates court charges two men for forced child marriage

Members of the upper house approve Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2016

Claims the suspects kidnapped his wife after her brother and a sister of the suspects entered into a court marriage