Fighting forced marriages with a spoon

The World

Girls being taken abroad, for a forced marriage, are being advised to put a spoon in their underwear at the airport — to set off the metal detectors. Marco Werman speaks with Jasvinder Sanghera, herself a victim of forced marriage, about a program in the UK to protect girls being forced into marriage against their will.

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