The government has agreed to look into funding the UK's first male-only refuge for victims of forced marriage.
It has emerged that 15% of the people who seek help about being forced into wedlock are men or boys.
A man taken to Pakistan as a child and forcibly engaged to his five-year-old cousin has called for a men's refuge.
Foreign Office minister Meg Munn said authorities must talk to those affected to "listen to their experiences" and "learn directly from them".
We have 165 women's refuges - what about the men?
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She said: "Generally people expect men to be able to look after themselves, to manage situations, so men subject to domestic violence, men subject to forced marriage are likely to find it much, much more difficult."
She added "there could well be" a need for a male shelter.
source: BBC News
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