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Forced marriage, which is recognized by the United Nations as a "contemporary form of slavery", happens without full consent of the man or girl, and is related to threats by family members or the bride/groom. On eight January 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) issued an advisory opinion that states party to the American Convention on Human Rights ought to grant similar-intercourse couples accession to all existing home legal systems of family registration, including marriage, along with all rights that derive from marriage. A compelled marriage qualifies as a type of human trafficking in certain conditions. Author Kara Siddharth interviewed a Thai sufferer who acknowledged that she was "proud to meet her obligation to her mother and father within the form of tiny funds that the brothel proprietor despatched to her father after her trafficking debts had been repaid". Siddharth Kara argues that globalization and the spread of Western Capitalism drive inequality and rural poverty, which are the fabric causes for intercourse trafficking. |
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