When saying no is not an option : forced marriage in Australia and New Zealand / Samantha Lyneham, Samantha Bricknell.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2018.

200070

Human rights Australia.

Forced marriage -- Australia.

Slavery 21st century.

1. Executive summary

1.1 Objectives and methodology

1.2 The nature and context of forced marriage in Australia and New Zealand

1.3 Interventions for forced marriage

1.4 Challenges to intervention

2. Introduction

2.1 Data on forced marriage in Australia

2.2 Data on forced marriage in New Zealand

2.3 Purpose of the research

3. Methodology and data collection

3.1 Interviews with stakeholders

3.2 Focus groups with stakeholders and community members

3.3 Interviews with forced marriage victim/survivors

3.4 Analyses of victim/survivor case file information

3.5 Limitations

4. Definitions and legislative frameworks

4.1 International definitions of forced marriage

4.2 Australia's legislative framework on forced marriage

5.3 Child marriage

5.4 New Zealand's legislative framework on forced marriage

5.5 What does it mean to give or obtain consent?

5.6 The relationship between forced and servile marriage

5. The nature and context of forced marriage in Australia and New Zealand

5.1 Vulnerabilities to forced marriage

5.2 Forced marriage narratives

6. The intervention framework

6.1 The intervention landscape

6.2 Education, training and awareness-raising

6.3 Criminal, civil and regulatory controls

6.4 Challenges to intervention

6.5 How to intervene safely

6.6 Connecting response

6.7 The effect of criminalisation

7. Conclusion

7.1 A different group of victims

7.2 Appropriate intervention.

Australia is one of a small number of countries to criminalise forced marriage, introduced into the Criminal Code 1995 in 2013 as a slavery-like practice. However, unlike other nations where forced marriage is a criminal offence, there has been little formal examination of the nature and context of forced marriage in Australia and the consequences (positive and negative) of criminalising this practice. This report uses interviews with victim/survivors of forced marriage, community members and government and non-government stakeholders in Australia and New Zealand (where forced marriage is not criminalised) to describe the perceptions and realities of forced marriage, including the circumstances of the marriage, experiences of victim/survivors while married and their help-seeking behaviours, and post-marriage support and consequences. It also examines the course of intervention adopted in Australia to respond to forced marriage and the cultural challenges to these interventions. - Abstract.

Includes bibliographical references.

2206-7280

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