Media

Freedom Charity · Media centre

Facts before headlines

A source centre for journalists, producers, researchers, documentary teams and public bodies covering forced marriage, FGM, Dishonour Abuse, virginity testing, hymenoplasty and safeguarding.

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Original imagery from Freedom Charity’s media archive. The full image is shown without cropping.

The original archive

Our work, on record.

Freedom’s film and broadcast archive connects our safeguarding work with the people, campaigns and moments behind it. These are the original recordings and stills, not recreated images.

Still from Freedom Charity’s original Freedom2Choose campaign film

#Freedom2Choose

The original Freedom Charity campaign film from the period of forced-marriage criminalisation in 2014. Watch the original film ↗
 
Archive still for the BBC Newsnight film on forced-marriage law

BBC Newsnight

Original broadcast coverage of forced marriage, preserving Freedom’s public record rather than substituting a new illustration. Watch the original recording ↗
 
Original Al Jazeera interview archive still

Al Jazeera interview

Aneeta Prem discusses Shafilea Ahmed in an original broadcast interview from Freedom’s media archive. Watch the original interview ↗
 

For more interviews and original footage, see Freedom’s public timeline and archive.

Campaign music · Red Triangle

Not in My Name (End FGM)

Freedom Charity’s campaign song brings the Red Triangle message to a wider audience, encouraging people — including boys and young men — to reject FGM and support safeguarding education.

Lyrics: Aneeta Prem MBE. Music created with assistance from Suno under a paid subscription licence. The campaign video includes AI-assisted visuals; it is a campaign film rather than original documentary footage.

Watch the song on YouTube ↗ Explore the Red Triangle campaign

Articles and statements

Freedom’s articles and news

Browse Freedom Charity’s published articles, news and commentary, with links to the original full pages. The newest articles appear first; use the page controls for the complete archive.

These are Freedom Charity’s own published articles and statements. Broadcast interviews and other original recordings are listed separately above.

Fast facts

Reporting guidance, essential distinctions and links to verified sources.

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Expert comment

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Archive

Explore Freedom’s public record of media, Parliament, education, campaigns and policy work.

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Reporting accurately

Five mistakes to avoid

  • Do not describe arranged marriage and forced marriage as the same thing.
  • Do not use police-recorded HBA figures as a prevalence estimate.
  • Do not say every FGM concern triggers the England and Wales mandatory-reporting duty; the specific duty applies to defined known cases.
  • Do not imply the hymen can prove virginity.
  • Do not identify or enable jigsaw identification of victims protected by lifelong anonymity.

Cases and prosecutions

Verified examples available for reporting

Freedom’s authority pages link to CPS and government sources on forced-marriage prosecutions and FMPO breaches, the 2019 first FGM conviction in England and Wales, the 2023 overseas-assistance conviction and the 2024 conspiracy conviction involving both FGM and forced marriage. These are case examples, not a prevalence series. Journalists should use the CPS wording and court outcome for the specific case rather than generalising from a headline.

Freedom’s public record

Why Freedom is a relevant source

Freedom has worked on forced marriage and FGM since 2009 through education, helpline support, books, technology, professional training, Parliamentary evidence, campaigns and media. Aneeta Prem MBE has appeared across national broadcast and print media and has given Parliamentary evidence on forced marriage and related abuse. Read Aneeta Prem’s professional biography for her wider public-service and authorship record. Freedom can comment on its own work and practitioner experience. Government policy, police statistics, prosecutions and medical evidence should still be attributed to the relevant primary source.

Press enquiries

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Freedom Charity

Built to be checked.

Freedom Charity was co-founded in 2009 by Aneeta Prem MBE and Lord Toby Harris. The charity’s public record connects safeguarding, education, books, technology, campaigns, professional training, policy and routes to help. Where Freedom reports its own reach, it labels it as Freedom data; where an external source verifies a milestone, the source is linked. Our Story & TimelineEvidence & ImpactGovernance