Sep. 04 2024
Source Page: IAGCI invites tenders to evaluate Home Office country information on Vietnam, India, and TurkeyFound: There are no available figures on the number of prosecutions , conviction s or detail of any sentences
Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) Mao Tse-Tung’s Great Leap Forward, the devastating famine of the 1960s, when the entire country was forced - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) They were forced into marriage and prostitution to survive. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) For example, the incidence of child marriage and gender-based violence significantly increases in the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) progress through our flagship “What works to prevent violence” programme and pioneering work to end child marriage - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Since 2010, we have criminalised forced marriage; criminalised revenge porn; criminalised failing to - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) I am pleased to say that there have been two prosecutions for this, one as recently as October, and I - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: It will inevitably mean fewer victims engage, making prosecutions more difficult. 44 Section 63 of
Mentions:
1: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) fund, £7,719,700 is provided to women’s aid groups, and we will help to fund the domestic abuse and forced - Speech Link
2: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) Prosecutions are brought by the independent Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, and the courts - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) We have taken evidence from across the United Kingdom and discovered family members forced into marriage - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Definitions are also muddled by the forced marriage of “LGB” with “TQI”. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Does the Minister think that one day we might actually see some prosecutions in relation to those violations - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We strongly condemn forced marriage and the forced conversion of women and girls, including in Pakistan - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) At the age of 14, Maira Shahbaz was abducted, forced into a marriage and raped. - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We continue to raise in Islamabad the issue of forced marriage and conversion with the Pakistani authorities - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) In addition, the Scottish Government funds the domestic abuse and forced marriage helpline to offer free - Speech Link
2: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) for which he was responsible in his former role, in connection with Horizon information technology prosecutions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) on churches, homes and businesses, detention without trial, jailing, abduction, sexual harassment, forced - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Pakistani religious minorities face serious persecution, including forced conversions, child marriage - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) do not have time to cover, such as the current situation in the Crown jurisdictions, the pursuit of prosecutions - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) They have not done so on gay marriage. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Others might feel forced to take things into their own hands in violent and lonely ways. - Speech Link
4: Chloe Smith (Con - Norwich North) People are forced to take often hidden, undignified and desperate action. - Speech Link