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...Nobody knows exactly how many people are forced into marriages because, as scholars like Talib note, most affected women are afraid to seek help and ostracize themselves from their communities. But the U.K.'s Forced Marriage Unit, administered through the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), handled more than 1,300 cases during the first three quarters of 2008 alone, an increase of 79% over 2007. With some victims as young as 13, most cases involved women, though experts estimate that 15% of cases worldwide may involve men marrying as a result of family pressure. "We're definitely getting more calls than...
...prepared statement this week, the FCO refuted the report's allegation of a cover-up and said portions of the report contained "statements that are unfair and unfounded." But in a concession to Ward, it also added: "While we refute any allegations of collusion with the Kenyan Government, we could and should have handled this case better...
...this week the Sunday Telegraph newspaper revealed that an independent police report - completed secretly in 2004 - has found that Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the British High Commission in Kenya had made mistakes and engaged in cover-ups in the investigation into Julie's murder...
...report, undertaken by the Lincolnshire Police on behalf of Scotland Yard and obtained by TIME, accuses the FCO and High Commission of "inconsistency and contradictions, falsehoods and downright lies," and concludes that "it is this that has not surprisingly led to John Ward believing that there was an active conspiracy to prevent him from identifying his daughter's killers...
...training program, run by British consulting firm GroundTruth, was part of an effort by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to prepare its U.S.-based Rapid Deployment Team to respond to future natural and manmade disasters in the hemisphere. The British government decided to ramp up this type of training after taking a beating in the press for its perceived clumsy handling of the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali...