Servile marriage 2012, para. 51
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- In some cases, the parents force a bride into a servile marriage to improve their economic situation or to pay off the family's debts. A poor, rural family is more likely to force a female member into marriage for financial reasons rather than for cultural and religious reasons. The payment may be made in cash or in kind to the woman's family, guardian or any other person or group. In such instances, the bride's family forces her to remain in a servile marriage because returning to her home would mean that her family would have to repay the bride price to her husband or her husband's family.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 51
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