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Conversion without consent. The abduction, forced religious conversions, and child marriage of faith minority girls in Pakistan

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: International human rights law guarantees individuals the right to freedom of religion or belief via “worship, observance, practice and teaching”. Freedom of religion permits peaceful evangelism; it does not, protect acts of coercive conversion through bribery, promises of social benefits, or exploitation of another’s “inexperience, trust, need, low intellect or naïvety”. In the predominantly Muslim population in Pakistan, conversion to Islam is encouraged, and the negligible implementation of legislation – albeit already deficient or discriminatory in essence – further emboldens Muslim men to kidnap girls from minority faith communities, whom they then subject to forced religious conversions and child marriages.

Source: International Journal for Religious Freedom

DOI: 10.59484/xgrc5732

Authors: Jubilee Campaign, Voice for Justice

Language: English

Topic: Religious Freedom and Discrimination

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4406134337

FWCI: 2.66

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