Britain: young Asian girls and forced marriages...

As pupils are regularly disappearing from schools, an organization is rescuing British girls as young as nine from forced marriages.

Jasvinder Sanghera, who founded Karma Nirvana to help such victims, is campaigning to help young girls escape forced marriage.

While no accurate figures exist to show how many children are affected in the UK, schools are seeing many pupils regularly disappearing, as many of them are prisoner in their own homes before being flown abroad and forced to marry. More...

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