Citizenship and Immigration committee  There can be a great danger for the women sent back to the country of origin. We have a situation in Denmark where they can still be religiously married but civilly separated or divorced, and in their minds they are still married. For example, when the man wants another wife, he

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You have to examine every case very thoroughly because this risk exists. Where I sit, I sometimes write the authorities to stop a woman from being deported because of this. If a foreign woman has been subjected to violence, and it's physical violence, it's not that difficult to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's always this risk, and I think it's present every time we, in this field, are trying to help someone, that we are afraid that it will [Technical difficulty—Editor] someone for asking for our help. I still think you have to do both; you have to have this strong support syst

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe I'm repeating myself, but I still think raising awareness has to be done on different levels, in schools, through education, in a lot of places. You have to raise awareness about this through big campaigns. In 2012 the government made a four-year plan, including a lot of th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think that you have a choice actually. You have to have laws like this. In societies like yours and mine, you can't accept that people think they can get away with these child abuse issues. This is not okay. You have to send a strong signal that it's not okay: you can't d

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could say, I very much agree with Ms. Raza on a lot of things. Also, I think this 16 years of age to marry is not a lot. They would be very much more independent and more knowledge to say that they don't want to perhaps, if....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I didn't know at the start how much you knew about me, but I work entirely with honour-based violence and honour-based crimes. That said, the law is an important signal to send to these families who are considering things like this—but no case has been before the cour

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, thank you for inviting me. I think it's very important that you as a nation take a clear stand against forced marriages and child marriages. We need to protect women and children against these offences. Generally, there will always be a risk that a family will do