{"id":39702,"date":"2018-05-28T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=39702"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:12:59","slug":"thousands-enslaved-in-forced-marriages-across-uk-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/thousands-enslaved-in-forced-marriages-across-uk-investigation-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands enslaved in forced marriages across UK, investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"


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More than 3,500 reports of forced marriage were made to police over a three-year period, a Guardian investigation has found, as charities warned that there were thousands more victims living in conditions of modern slavery in homes across the UK. <\/p>\n

Data shared exclusively with the Guardian revealed 3,546 reportsbetween 2014 and 2016. But experts warn that the figures, collected by the Iranian and Kurdish Women\u2019s Rights Organisation<\/a> under the Freedom of Information Act, are just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

Over the same three-year period one national helpline run by another NGO received 22,030 calls from individuals or agencies concerned about a forced marriage. In 2017 the NGO Karma Nirvana<\/a> received a further 8,870 calls, including more than 200 from or about children under 15, and gave advice regarding eight new clients under 10.<\/p>\n