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This page contains press release 13/05, reporting the MPA's support for the MPS conference on forced marriages.
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MPA support for MPS conference on forced marriages
13/05
15 February 2005
Aneeta Prem, magistrate member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and lead member for forced marriages, said today:
“I welcome working in partnership with other agencies and any dialogue that will help highlight the awful reality that many young people face.
“The MPA supports the conference ‘Forced Marriages – Keeping it on the Policing Agenda’, hosted by the Metropolitan Police Service at Kensington Town Hall on Wednesday 16 February 2005.
“We have to raise awareness amongst communities and spread best practice.
“Many young women, as well as men, from a variety of backgrounds, including Asian, African and Eastern European, experience extreme pressure to conform to the expectations of their community and family against their own wishes - in essence an intense cultural clash. This can lead to depression or much worse.
“We look forward to an open dialogue on an issue which has been historically difficult to bring into the public arena so that practitioners are more empowered and enabled to respond.”
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