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Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: a human rights issue by Clawson, Rachael, Fyson, Rachel

“…This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such marriages may occur. …”
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Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards by Clawson, Rachael

Subjects: “…safeguarding; forced marriage; vulnerable adult; frontline practice; learning disabilities; intellectual disabilities…”
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The socio-legal perspectives of child marriage in Zanzibar by Omar Hamdan, Sikujua, Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina, Mohd Zin, Najibah, Abdul Hak, Nora

“…With the change of time, the child marriage has now taken a different shape and treated as “forced marriage”, or is popularly known as “Ndoa za Mkeka” in Zanzibar. …”
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Constituent physical ingredients of rape: a proposal for law reform by Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail

“…Historically, the law of rape was concerned particularly with the theft of virginity, reflecting a preoccupation with the protection of virgins from rape, abduction and forced marriage. And basically, before an accused can be convicted of any serious offence, it must be proved that he performed some act that is prohibited by the law and that he did so with a spesific state of mind. …”
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Sociocultural practices in maternal health among women in a less developed economy: An overview of Sokoto State, Nigeria by Muazu Alhaji Shamaki, Amriah Buang

“…The findings reveal that tradition-inspired practices and norms such as unattended labour and delivery, low level of education, hot-bath (Wankan jego) during new birth, use of herbs, forced marriage, early marriage, child spacing, female genital mutilation and traditional gender discrimination play a significant role in maternal health, and are believed to account for the high maternal mortality rates in the state. …”
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(Un)reading orientalism in Sherry Jones’ The Jewel of Medina by Abubakar, Sadiya, Md. Salleh Yaapar, Suzana Muhammad

“…Through an “(un)reading” of Sherry Jones’ text, this paper unravels the misconceptions regarding early and forced marriage with a view to address the ways in which these misconceptions could lead to Islamophobia. …”
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The colours of exploitation: smuggling of Rohingyas from Myanmar to Malaysia by Andika Ab. Wahab

“…Worse, the use of deception, coercion, forced labour and forced marriage were not uncommon employed by the smugglers in order to intimidate and threaten victims. …”
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Perjuangan wanita dalam aktivisme sosial dan nasionalisme di Tanah Melayu, 1929-1957 / Ruhana Padzil by Ruhana, Padzil

“…The feminist sentiment can be discerned from the women’s movement’s call for female education and in the move to discard practices that subordinated women such as forced marriage, polygamy and etc. This study found that women activists used their identity as mothers and employed the maternal thinking approach to be involved in social and political activism. …”
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Engendered violence against women during partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Amit Majmudar's partitions by Wei, Gabriel Clement Chua Chen

“…In this study, engendered violence is described as a violation of women’s bodies, sexualities and psyches by men in general, carried out in various forms such as abduction, rape, honour killings, forced prostitution, forced marriages, forced religious conversions and bodily mutilations. …”
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Violence and sexual harassment in Nigerian novels: the nego-feminist option by Alkali, Muhammad, Talif, Rosli, Mohd Jan, Jariah

“…Such advantages from sexual abuse or sexual assault into forced marriages and to mild transgressions that include simple teasing, offhand comments, or minor isolated incidents in the life cycle of a female such as demonstrated in Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price (1976) forcefully calls attention to how they should be remedied. …”
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