15 August 2013

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Spoon In Underwear Saving British Youths From Forced Marriage

As Britain puts airport staff on alert to spot potential victims of forced marriage, one campaigning group says the trick of putting a spoon in their underwear has saved some youngsters from a forced union in their South Asian ancestral homelands. The concealed spoon sets off the metal detector at the airport in Britain and the teenagers can be taken away from their parents to be searched -- a last chance to escape a largely hidden practice wrecking the lives of unknown thousands of British youths. [...]

Kudos to the Karma Nirvana charity for that brilliant idea!

Let's make sure more of the youngsters at risks know about it!

Loup Dargent

Spoon in underwear saving youths from forced marriage (via AFP)

As Britain puts airport staff on alert to spot potential victims of forced marriage, one campaigning group says the trick of putting a spoon in their underwear has saved some youngsters from a forced union in their South Asian ancestral homelands. The…

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