Parliamentary committee says it’s time to make forced marriage a crime
Tweet Leila has just finished first year at university. Like other young women her age, she wants to be a success and to live her own life. She’s bright and has lots of friends. She wants to be happy. Leila is a survivor of forced marriage. When she was 17 her father said that she had to marry an older man. When she refused, he accused her of dishonouring her family. Her mother begged her to go along with the marriage, and her father began to lock her in the house, and threatened to take her out of school. Leila became worried and called IKWRO. Last year IKWRO...
Read MoreGetting it right first time: women and asylum
Tweet Asylum Aid recently exposed very high rates of refusal for women seeking asylum in the UK. Russell Hargrave has written a guest blog to tell us more: The typical image of a political refugee is of a single male, fleeing conflict in which he has become embroiled at home. But in 2009 more than 7000 women applied for asylum in the UK. The factors which lead women to seek asylum can be very different from their male counterparts. Women face persecution for their political activities, but also for their gender. They may come from societies where violation of women’s rights is the...
Read MoreGovernment plan on violence against women and girls: OUR VERDICT
IKWRO explains why the government’s new action plan on violence against women and girls does do enough for victims of ‘honour’ based violence
Read MoreIntroducing…. the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation
Learn more about IKWRO, how we help women and our campaigns.
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