This webinar will provide participants with foundational knowledge of forced marriage as a form of gender-based violence and the abusive tactics often utilized to forced an individual at risk to comply with the marriage demands. We will discuss commonly used terminology with a focus on the various aspects of consent that must be present in any marriage. We will walk through the tools of power and control often used by those perpetrating abuse, including the abuse that may precede a forced marriage, and the forms of violence that can result either by the refusal to marry or within the marriage.

The webinar aims to increase the expertise of service providers with a focus on identifying cases of forced marriage within existing caseloads. There are two QR codes located towards the bottom right-hand side of the first slide that will link to the webinar’s recording. Recordings are available to Spanish and English.