Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 26
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Violence against women is also manifested in ways that violate women's right to voluntary and equal marriage. Forced marriages, whether coerced through kidnapping or physical or sexual violence, is a means of forcing women into unwanted and unequal marriages. As the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and its consequences, has noted, physical and sexual violence against women is used to force women and girls into servile marriages, where women are treated as commodities purchased from their families, over which any or all the powers of ownership are exercised (A/HRC/24/43, para. 10).
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences