Gangashakti.org
“The Difference is Consent”
Are You, or someone you know, Being Threatened or Forced to Marry ?
Forced Marriage is not Cultural
Forced Marriage is an Act of Violence
We Are An American Survivor-Led Grassroots Movement Working to End Violence & Forced Marriage Against Our Children, Family Members, Friends, Neighbors, and Co-Workers.
We Offer Completely Confidential Emotional Support &
Referrals to Specialized Service Providers for Legal and Shelter Services.
Earn Your Freedom Today: We Help You to Budget, Save, Understand and Use Credit, How to Buy or Rent a home, How to Manage your Insurance Needs, How to Write a Resume and Find a Job.
Economic Independence = Emotional Independence
Ganga - The Ganges River - Symbolizing The Feminine, Life Empowering, Planetary Energy of Mother Earth.
Shakti - The Power Within.
Forced Marriage Resources :
Forced Marriage Safety Checklist
Read the Tahiri National Study to Identify Forced Marriage in the United States
You Can Directly Report A Forced Marriage that is Imminent or Has Already Taken Place to the United Nations for Investigation
Forced Marriage is a serious global problem affecting the health and safety of millions of individuals worldwide.
Our goal is to increase communication within local communities that face this problem and global communities that respond to this problem.
Gangashakti in the News:
Jury Finds Family Guilty of Murdering their Three Teenage Daughters:
Family Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed the three teenage sisters because they dishonored the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socializing and using the Internet.
Forced Marriage has a variety of causes including the need to control and restrict an individual's ability to self-determine his/her choices.
We have only seen the tip of the iceberg here in the USA. Forced Marriage is happening in America within American families.
Daughters are being threatened with their freedom, held at gunpoint, threats of beheading, false imprisonment in the home, and many cases of the parents trafficking their own children overseas under duress.
As an American,the Founder of Gangashakti, works to empower the American experience.
Her personal narrative illustrates how she grows up in New York City, straddling multiple value systems. She is then forced to go overseas to marry.
There are thousands of cases of forced marriage in the USA but no one speaks of them because of the social taboos associated with this harmful practice.
There is a powerful need for enforcement of legal remedies that can protect men, women, and children from the harmful physical and psychological effects of this practice.
The Beautiful Ganges River
at the Himalayas,
May her Shakti become Yours !
