forced marriage

This powerful documentary reveals the tragic health problems suffered by children born within first cousin marriages and explores the controversy surrounding this cultural phenomenon. A disproportionate number of rare recessive genetic disorders occur amongst those of South Asian and especially Pakistani descent and the programme investigates the science, political and social consequences of marrying your…… Read More

101 East travels to Bangladesh to find out why young girls are often forced to marry men twice their age. In Bangladesh, 13-year-old Beezly Roy is preparing for her wedding. She is to be married the following day. Despite child marriage being illegal, it is not unusual. Almost a third of all Bangladeshi girls marry…… Read More

As a teenager, Rania Farrah was taken captive and held against her will by her father’s family in Syria. A prisoner in the secretive and sinister world of young women who face the prospect of forced marriage. But refusing to be defeated, she secretly plotted and pulled off a daring escape back to Australia on…… Read More