“I bought you. You are my wife”: “Modern Slavery” and Forced Marriage

Forced marriage is identified as a serious global challenge, and has recently been linked to modern slavery. In this article we seek understand how slavery, institutions practices similar other forms of exploitation are forced marriage. Innovatively, do through deductive linguistic analysis the world’s largest database survivor narratives.We found that people who marry experience range human rights violations, including slavery arguably“ itself. This includes labor, pregnancy, sterilization, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, trafficking in persons, significant restrictions on personal liberty movement. Sometimes occurs during their marriage; sometimes it before, leading occasion happens after, because womens vulnerability having exited Our findings should prompt further research into links between marriage, persons. Absent any research, they already help policy-makers those front line these phenomena, thus aid achievement both Sustainable Development Goal 5 (5.3) 8 (8.7).