Saira grew up in Britain, the daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants. Saira was also Deaf and communicated using British Sign Language. Her parents spoke little English and could not use sign language.
So how could Saira communicate to her parents her wishes when it came to marriage? And how would the courts mediate between her language, her faith and her culture whilst protecting Saira’s wellbeing?
http://goldenroom.co.uk/issue/march-2014/article/from-the-bench-saira-wants-to-marry1
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Tagged British Sign Language, Deaf, Deaf Muslim, Deaf Muslim woman wants to marry., disabled people and marriage, forced marriage, Forced Marriage Act, marriage rights for Deaf people, marriage rights for disabled people, protecting vulnerable adults, protecting vulnerable Deaf people
Last week London police rescued three women who had been held as slaves, possibly for as long as thirty years.
Earlier in September, Ariel Castro, who had been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and imprisoning three women, committed suicide in a prison in America.
Slavery, however isn’t always the stuff of extreme and dramatic headlines. Sometimes it is terribly banal.
Goldenroom’s timely article on slavery and human trafficking will have you thinking about what you buy.
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Tagged abduction, bondage, cheap labour, child abduction, debt bondage, domestic servitude, enslavement, exploitation, fair trade, food processing plants, forced labour, forced marriage, gangmasters, human enslavement, human traffickers, human trafficking, illegal adoption, Islam slaves, kidnapping, Mauritania, prostitution, sex rings, sex traffickers, sex trafficking, sex workers, slave caste, slave conditions, slave labour, slave rings, slavemasters, slavery, trafficked labour, violence against women
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