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UK: Children still forced into overseas marriages despite 2014 law

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Students savoring the diversity of imported customs and morals, and an underground revival of partriarchal "norms".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44812530

EXCERPT: A school is attempting to tackle forced marriages by handing out spoons to urge students to hide them in underwear to trigger metal detectors at airports. [...] if they fear they are being taken overseas to be married. It will trigger metal detectors at airports, allowing them to raise the alarm with security staff privately. [...] 80% of UK forced marriages happened abroad during the summer holidays. [...] Parents who force their children to marry can be punished by up to seven years in prison....

MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44812530
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