• The Hall KurdÎ: There’s no turning back from this Revolution – Ji Şoreşê Veger NÎn e” (Kurdish Kurmanji)
• Flaunt Magazine: Payzee Mahmod

• The Oldham Times: Oldham MP to host talk to tackle violence against women 

• CNN: Women are leading the movement for freedom and men are supporting them

• Manoto TV: Diana Nammi discusses the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran

• Grazia Daily: Please use your voice for my sisters fighting for freedom in Iran

• Sky News: Diana Nammi speaks about the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini in Iran

• Global Citizen: ‘Meet Payzee Mahmod, the Global Citizen Prize Winner who made child marriage illegal in England and Wales’ 

• Kurdistan 24: Kurdish activist wins Global Citizen Prize Award in UK

• Global Citizen: Global Citizen Prize meet this year’s extraordinary winners

• Times Radio: Payzee Mahmod discusses IKWRO’s campaign achieving a ban on child marriage 

• BBC Newsbeat: Payzee Mahmod discusses the impacts of child marriage and IKWRO’s successful campaign to change the law 
• BBC Asian Network: Sara Browne and Payzee Mahmod on the success of IKWRO’s campaign to ban child marriage 
• BBC News: Payzee Mahmod speaks with Victoria Derbyshire about IKWRO’s successful campaign to ban child marriage 

• ITV News: Minimum marriage age to be raised

• Manoto TV: Diana Nammi speaks on IKWRO’s successful campaign to ban child marriage 

• Manoto TV: Diana Nammi celebrated on Women of Today for International Women’s Day 2022
• Rahai Zan TV: Nazira Mehmari interviewed for International Women’s Day 2022
• Mirror: Alarming TV advert shows how you can help stop sexual harassment in the street
• I-News: ‘They said I must be meek so men would want to marry me’; why honour-based abuse of child brides is rising
• The London Free Press: UK will ban hymen repair surgery
• The Guardian: ‘Virginity repair’ surgery to be banned in Britain under new bill
• BBC News: Hymen repair surgery and virginity testing to be banned in UK 
• Rahai Zan TV: Interview with IKWRO’s Diana Nammi, Payzee Mahmod and Zahra Rasouli

2021

• BBC Asian Network: IKWRO’s refuge through the pandemic
• Rahai Zan TV: IKWRO participate in Farsi TV interview [1] [2] [3]
• BBC World Service, Outlook: My sister Banaz – killed for loving the wrong man
• Human Rights Magazine: child marriage – causes and solutions
• Upstream Journal: Child marriage – its causes and solutions
• The Big Issue: Campaigners’ joy as MP’s back bill to raise minimum marriage age to 18 and stop child marriage
• BBC Asian Network: Payzee Mahmod spoke with BBC Asian Network about MP’s voting to ban child marriage.
• LBC Radio: Payzee Mahmod discusses MP’s voting to ban child marriage
• Channel 5 News: Payzee Mahmod speaks about MP’s voting to ban child marriage.
• The Guardian: England and Wales ‘one step closer to ending child marriage’ after MP vote
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Opinion: My sister was murdered as a child bride in the UK. This new law can save other girls’ lives’.
• Independent: ‘It will save lives: Legislation to ban child marriage passes first hurdle in parliament’
• Times Radio: Payzee Mahmod spoke to Times Radio ahead of vote on banning child marriage
• BBC News: MPs Back Raising Minimum Age to Protect Children
• Grazia: ‘I was 16, Standing In The Garden Of My South London Home, Being Coerced Into Marriage With A Man Twice my Age’
• The Guardian: Parliament to Vote on Bill to Ban Child Marriage in England and Wales
• ITV Exposure: Britain’s ‘Virginity’ Clinics Uncovered
• ITV News: The value placed on virginity and what happens to the women valued to be ‘impure’
• The Observer: Exposed: UK clinics still offering to ‘restore virginity’ before marriage
• The Guardian: MP’s urged to ban ‘virginity repair’ surgery as well as virginity testing
• The Atlantic: The Cult of Virginity Just Won’t Let Go
• The Independent: Quarantine hotel costs risk forced marriage victims dying in ‘honour’ killings or being trapped abroad 
• Sky News: Girls begging for help and seeking surgery amid rise in virginity tests
• Sky News: Virginity testing on women and girls at levels never seen before
• The Pixel Project: Inspirational interviews: Payzee Mahmod, Campaigner, IKWRO – Women’s Rights Organisation Part 1
• The Pixel Project: Inspirational interviews: Payzee Mahmod, Campaigner, IKWRO – Women’s Rights Organisation Part 2
• Good Morning Britain: Payzee Mahmod on the new Bill to end child marriage
• Channel 5 News: Payzee Mahmod discusses the need to end all forms of child marriage
• Thomson Reuters Foundation: UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage
• BBC Radio 4: Payzee Mahmod speaks about the need to end child marriage (starts 1:50:343)
• Sveriges Radio: Payzee Mahmod discusses IKWRO’s campaign to end child marriage (starts 10:27)
• ITV News: Payzee Mahmod on the government’s commitment to raising the minimum age of marriage
• Times Radio: Payzee Mahmod speaks about why the government must end all forms of child marriage
• LBC Radio: Diana Nammi and David Lammy discuss the importance of safeguarding children from all forms of child marriage
• The Guardian: Government pledges to raise legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales
• CBC Radio: Child marriage is a ‘hidden crime’ and it’d happening in Western nations, says survivor and advocate 
• The Guardian: Child marriage ‘thriving in UK’ due to legal loophole, warn rights groups
• BBC News: Under-18 marriages ‘thriving’ in the UK and should be banned, say charities

2020

• CNN: Forced marriage survivor: a big part of me died during those two years
• Rudaw: Child marriage is still legal in Britain: meet the Kurdish woman campaigning for its end
• Big Issue North: Covid locks ‘honour’ victims in
• BBC News: MP Pauline Latham’s bid to criminalise child marriage under 18
• Metro: It took my sister’s honour killing for me to be free from my child marriage 
• The Guardian: ‘So old he was losing his hair’: survivor’s urge MP’s to end scandal of UK’s child brides 
• CNN: Domestic abuse and lockdown restrictions: a perfect storm
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Opinion: My sister was murdered in an ‘honour killing. Police ignored her pleas for help
• Stylist: ITV’s Honour Payzee Mahmod reflects on the ‘honour’ killing of her sister Banaz 
• The Guardian: ‘She won’t be the last’: why not enough has changed since the murder of Banaz Mahmod
• The Times: Honour: ITV’s true-life drama about an honour killing
• Radio Times: ITV’s Honour” sister of Banaz Mahmod is pleased conversation is being had 
• The Guardian: UK’s women’s refuges turn away victim’s who speak no English
• Elle: Organisations to support BAME women disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus
• Reuters: Calls to UK ‘honour’ abuse hotline double under lockdown
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Jump in forced marriage cases feared after lockdown
• Global Citizen: Child marriage could spike on England and Wales as Covid-19 lockdown eases, experts say
• The Guardian: Girls at risk of child marriage as half of authorities fail to keep records
• Metro: British freedom fighter says ‘I joined the Peshmerga to save my life’
• The Independent: Activist Diana Nammi on frontline life in the Peshmerga forces: ‘If I stayed, I would be executed — joining Peshmerga was my chance to live’
• Sister-hood: Girl with a Gun: Review
• BBC Woman’s Hour: Interview with Diana Nammi about her book Girl With A Gun on her early life as a Peshmerga and her lifelong commitment to women’s rights (starts 20:46)
• BBC Radio 5: Sara Browne and Pauline Latham discuss the campaign to end child marriage
• BBC Radio 5: Payzee Mahmod talks about marriage at 16 years of age
• BBC Asian Network: Payzee Mahmod and Sara Browne discuss the laws around child marriage
• Islington Gazette: Women’s rights activist who too up arms and fought Ayatollah Khomenei’s Iranian army tells her story
• Global Citizen: Child Marriage Survivor Payzee Mahmod is Fighting to Change the Law
• Kurdistan24: New book highlights life story of Kurdish female fighter from Iran
• The Independent: Why we need to talk about what Brexit means for survivors of domestic abuse
• Refinery29: I was coerced into child marriage at. 16, now I’m fighting to stop it in the UK
• PoliticsHome, The House: Sarah Champion and Pauline Latham: We must end child marriages in the UK

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