If you or someone you know is being forced into a marriage and is at risk: call the Police on 999. If your perpetrator is near you and it is not safe for you to speak, press 55 and the police will understand that you are at risk. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
If you need urgent advice, or need to get away call the 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247. For specialist advice, click here for a list of organisations, but most operate on weekdays, and usually between 9.00 a.m - 5.30 pm.
Season's Greetings
From Everyone at NCFM
The festive season can pose many challenges for those of you living in hostile environments, in your communities, or facing domestic abuse at home where you should be safe.
KNOW YOU ARE NOT ALONE. STAY SAFE. IF AT RISK CALL THE POLICE OR THE DOMESTIC ABUSE HELPLINE
Forced marriage is a hidden crime. It is not restricted to any single racial, ethnic, or religious community or class. Men and women, girls and boys, and transgender people are forced into marriage
This site is updated regularly. Please check for the latest news on our work.
10th December was Human Rights Day. FORCED MARRIAGE IS A BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
We wish to remember those who died because they wished to flee a forced marriage; and all victims and survivors of forced marriage.
Anne-Marie Hutchinson (born 1 August 1957 - died 2 October 2020)
We are very sad to lose Anne-Marie Hutchinson, a pillar of the Commission. Our Chair, Baroness Butler-Sloss described Anne-Marie as, 'an exceptional person whose premature death will leave a great gap in a very important and not always well-understood branch of law.'
Read the full tribute from Chair, and Anne-Marie's obituary in the Guardian: here
Shafilea Ahmad and Banaz Mahmod were killed by their parents; the people who should have protected them the most
