“I think Americans are completely unaware of forced marriage happening
on our soil. We have a mythology about freedom and believe it applies
to everyone here,” said Layli Miller-Munro, executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center in
suburban Virginia, a nonprofit legal defense organisation which works
on forced marriage and other human rights abuses affecting girls and
women primarily from immigrant communities.
READ MORE: http://www.salon.com/2012/11/24/forced_marriage_in_our_own_backyard/
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