These include forced marriage, wife-transfer, child marriage and the sale of children for labour.
Civil courts have the power to issue Forced Marriage Protection orders to prevent weddings from taking place.
Only those affected by domestic violence, forced marriage or child abduction would have access to legal aid.
The free app has been launched in conjunction with the Freedom Charity which runs a forced marriage helpline.
The event also aims to explain the Forced Marriage Act 2007, which offers protection to those at risk.
Commander Mak Chishty heads up policymaking on honour-based violence and forced marriage for the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.
Midwives in the West Midlands are to be trained by the police to help spot victims of forced marriage and "honour-based violence".
Forced marriage is often linked with so-called "honour" killings and domestic violence.
Forced Marriage Protection Orders were introduced in 2008 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland under the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007.
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In the UK, it assists actual and potential victims of forced marriage, as well as professionals working in the social, education and health sectors.
The government's Forced Marriage Unit has received reports from 1600 people in the last year, and most experts think the problem is much larger.
The report recommended sponsors should be interviewed by officials whenever there is a suspicion of forced marriage, by a GP or another third party.
The education secretary insisted the regionalisation was "not a shotgun marriage or a forced marriage" but was a response to the report from Professor Griggs.
There are no excuses and the government shares the committee's concern about the abuse and harm to children caused by domestic violence and forced marriage.
Genital mutilation, forced marriage and other forms of abuse are widespread.
Every year it deals with around 1, 600 cases of forced marriage.
The unit has also partly funded a new smartphone app designed to provide information about forced marriage with links to where potential victims can get help.
The sooner people start to regard forced marriage in the same way they do domestic violence, the better it will be for those affected by it.
"We've had a quarter of the Forced Marriage Protection Orders for the whole of England and Wales, " said Det Sgt Wendy Bird, of West Midlands Police.
The committee went on to consider the Scottish government's response to its stage one report on the Forced Marriage etc. (Protection and Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Bill .
The legislation will give those who fear being married against their will the right to apply to a civil court for a Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO).
Mussurut Zia is the founder of Practical Solutions, which brings awareness, guidance and training to people dealing with the issues of forced marriage and honor-based violence in Britain.
Funding will continue for some civil cases including family law involving domestic violence or forced marriage and debt and housing matters where someone's home is at immediate risk.
Mr Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin has described his collaboration with Childs as a "forced marriage", but it was all smiles at the news conference.
Hirsi Ali first fled to the Netherlands as a refugee from Somalia in 1992 after declining to submit to a forced marriage to a man she did not know.
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Mr Cameron will now ask Home Secretary Theresa May to consult on criminalising forced marriage by working with support groups to ensure that such a move does not deter victims from coming forward.
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"It is unreasonable for the secretary of state to adopt this blanket, rigid and inflexible approach where the claimant has demonstrated the marriage is miles away from a forced marriage, " he told the court.
Azhar Mehmood runs a women's welfare group and works with the British High Commission in Mirpur to raise awareness about forced marriage - but is increasingly hearing from women who say they've been abandoned.
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