International Resource Centre
EXPERTS
The HBV AWARENESS NETWORK international Experts & Partners are:
EUROPE
DENMARK————————————-
Farwha NielsenCsross-cultural consultant and mediator. Farwha provides assistance and expertise to to the Danish National Police (Rigspolitiet) to help victims of honour-based violence in a sustainable way. She has developed a cross-cultural dialogue method, which she has used to help the victims achieve their goals, her method requires close collaboration between different professionals such as police officers, social workers, teachers and so on. Farwha teaches different professionals in how to deal with honour related issues nationally and internationally. She has also written numerous articles on this topic, her aim having always been to inform the public about these issues while changing the stereotypical images of ethnic minorities in Denmark. Farwha’s book about the topic of HBV is being published in October 2011. www.ewc.dk |
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GERMANY————————————-
Serap ÇileliAuthor and human rights activist. She wrote “We are your daughters, not your honour” published in 1999. Serap has worked with over 300 cases of honour based violence and forced marriage. For the many years of exceptional commitment to honour based violence and forced marriage Serap received the 2005 German Federal Cross of Merit award. Today she is a sought after expert and advisor in cases of Turkish women in need faced with honour based oppression. www.serap-cileli.de |
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Dietrich OberwittlerSociologist and research group leader at the Dept. of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include lethal violence in families and partnerships. He was the principal investigator of a large empirical study on honour killings in Germany between 1996 and 2005, published together with Julia Kasselt in 2011. Honour Killings In Germany |
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PAPATYAProvides protection and support to girls and young women of immigrant backgrounds, who are faced with threats of violence from their families. www.papatya.org |
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Rahel VolzWorking for the womens’ rights organisation TERRE DES FEMMES since 2002 as head of department “honour crimes”. In 2003 she launched a campaign against forced marriages within Migrant communities in Germany. www.frauenrechte.de www.ehrverbrechen.de |
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Julia KasseltJurist and criminologist, has been conducting research on honour killings in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, since 2008 and is currently writing her PhD thesis on the judicial response to honour killings in Germany. In 2011, Dietrich Oberwittler and Julia Kasselt published an empirical study on the phenomenon of honour killings in Germany. http://www.mpicc.de |
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Dr. Robert J. ErmersAnalyst and independent advisor to the police and other organisations in the Netherlands on the topic of HBV, including the police. He is also regularly involved in juridical investigations and prosecutions, especially through the Dutch National Expert Center for Honour Related Violence (Landelijk ExpertiseCentrum Eergerelateerd Geweld), part of the Dutch Police Organisation. Dr. Ermers is the author and co-author of two books on honour related violence in Dutch. He is currently working on an English book on this topic. www.mo-perspectief.nl |
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Margreet de Boer(Projects on Women’s Rights/Rights4Change) is an expert on the legal aspects of Violence Against Women and Honour related violence; both within domestic (Dutch) law and in the context of international law (human rights). www.projectsonwomensrights.nl www.rights4change.org |
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Jannie C. LimburgEducates practitioners such as police and teachers in Utrecht about Honour Based Violence. www.peervis.net |
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MOVISIE
The Netherlands centre for social development. Its mission is to promote the participation and independence of citizens by supporting and advising professional organizations, volunteer organizations and government institutions. Member of the team ‘Combating Domestic and Sexual Violence’. MOVISIE honour based violence experts are: Hanneke Felten. Speciality area, teenagers, LGBT victims of honour related violenceHilde Bakker. Speciality area: cooperation in the support of victims and dealing with perpetrators.Jenny Van Eyma. Speciality area: inclusion of isolated communities, peer to peer projects. |
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Patricia Gerrits(Director of Onder Ogen BV strategy and communication). Former program manager of the national approach of the Dutch government and policy advisor at the Integration department. Advisor on honour related violence specialised in building networks among professionals, policy makers and representatives of minority organisations. |
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Unni WikanAuthor and professor of social anthropology at University of Oslo. Wrote the 2003 book For ærens skyld – Fadime til ettertanke (For the sake of honour: Reflections on Fadime). |
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Anja BredalSenior Researcher at Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway. With a specific focus on ethnic minorities, gender and generation, family, arranged marriages, forced marriages, public policies, welfare state. Anja has written several papers and research reports in Norwegian about violence against minority women, forced marriage and honour based violence. |
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Terje BjørangerWorks as an assistant chief of police in Romerike policedistrict in Norway where he handles honour related issues predominantly related to forced marriages. Terje started his career working in child welfare service subsequently working as senior advisor in the Norwegian directorate of Immigration. Terje participates in an expert group established and headed by the policedirectorate, representing various police districts and departments in Norway, and deals with education, best practice end developing national guidelines for officers and caseworkers handling honour related cases. Terje is also the author of the Norwegian book “The third sister” which addresses honour killings.
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SWEDEN————————————-
Lasse JohanssonLeader of the “Institut Against Honour related oppression” (IMH) and the ” Center for Multicultural Familywork”(CMF). Counsellor for youth, families and social workers in questions of honour related oppression and violence. Lasse developed and wrote “Five steps” – methods to change in families where children are victims of honour related oppression. His specialty is working with schools, working with families with children at risk and provides knowledge on all the work in general against honour related oppression in Sweden. www.institutetmothedersförtryck.se |
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Astrid Schlytter(Department of Social Work, Stockholm University) has researched and written about honour based violence extensively making her among the leading authorities on this topic in Sweden. |
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Devin RexvidConducted research on honoure-related violence and oppression. The focus of his research has been the link between masculinity and honour, and how these two phenomena interact with each other. Problematization of honour-based traditions performance in modern contexts, has been central to his research. As a social worker Devin worked directly with individuals who have been victims of violence and oppression. Devin also lectures on HBV for professional groups who come into contact with vulnerable individuals at risk of Honour Based Violence. |
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Dr. Suruchi Thapar-BjörkertHeld a lectureship and a senior lectureship at the Department of Sociology at University of Bristol (2000-2010). Currently, Dr. Thapar-Björkert is an Associate Professor at the Department of Government, University of Uppsala. Her research interests focus on four main areas: 1) gender, nationalism and colonialism; 2) the political economy of gendered violence; 3) qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and 4) ethnicity, social capital and social exclusion. |
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Mikael ThörnInspector at National Board of Health and Welfare. Speciality: The work on honour related violence carried out by social welfare institutions. Mikael Thörn has has since the 90s worked in social services with victims of honour related violence and oppression. He has written manuals for the social services and their work with honour related violence, as well as working for the County Administrative Bord of Västra Götaland with education and support for social services.
In collaboration with Lasse Johansson, Mikael has developed and written the “Five-steps- metods of change in families where children are victims of honour related violence and oppression.
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TURKEY—————————————–
Prof. Dr. Yakin Erturk(Member, Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture) Professor of sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Former UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women |
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Ayse OnalAward-winning journalist and author. She is the author of two books, winner of fourteen Turkish National Press Awards and the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. Ayse is the author of the 2008 book Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed. |
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Recep DoğanRecep Doğan graduated from Ankara University, Department and School of Law, in 1997 and currently works as a legal advisor for the Ministry of Family and Social Policies in Turkey. After getting his LLM in child law degree from Keele University, he received his PhD in November 2010 from Keele University with his thesis “Honour Killings in Turkey: Culture, Subjectivism, and Provocation” that is the largest body of the research so far that reflects the voice of the perpetrators who committed murder in the name of honour and discusses the recent changes in the English law of provocation put into force by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. His works were mainly published in such peer reviewed journals as Homicide Studies, Punishment & Society and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He currently conducts research on female perpetrators who committed murder in the name of honour and on the treatment of minorities in Swedish Criminal Courts. |
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| Zozan Özgökçe Van Women’s Rights Organisation, Turkey. |  |
United Kingdom——————————–
Joanne Payton(Co-founder of HBVA) Conducting PhD research of ‘honour’ based violence occuring in Middle Eastern families in the UK at Cardiff University, with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council Joanne also works with Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and International Campaign Against Honour Killings. |
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Mr. Brent HyattInvestigated the Heshu Yones honour killing case in London 2001. He is considered one of the foremost authorities and experts on honour based violence in the UK. |
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Diana NammiDirector and Founder of London-based charity Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO ) which provides advice and support to Iranian, Kurdish, Arab, Turkish and Afghan women who are affected by domestic violence, forced marriage, FGM and “honour” killing. |
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Caroline GoodeDetective Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police. Led the investigation of the Banaz Mahmod case. She was responsible for the first ever extradition from Iraq to the UK. Was given the Queen’s Police Medal for her exemplary work leading the investigation. |
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Palbinder SinghChairperson of The Metropolitan Police Sikh Association: www.sikhpolice.org |
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Nazir Afzal, OBEChief Crown Prosecutor. Nazir is the UK’s leading prosecutor and has led the effort to raise awareness of honour based violence and develop strategies across Government and share best practise across the world. |
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Bingul DurbasBingul has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research project explored gender based violence in the private sphere in Turkey, including honour based violence, and state responses to such crimes by examining the court’s interpretations of honour killings and the criminal justice system’s approaches and responses to them. She continues to work in areas of Gender, Violence, and state responses to gender based violence. |
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBEis an English solicitor, who acts for the victims of forced marriages and Honour Based Violence. Anne-Marie specialises in all aspects of domestic and international family law and the international movement of children. In particular she has expertise in international divorce forum and jurisdictional disputes on divorce, with particular expertise in international custody disputes, child abduction; the EU Regulation on jurisdiction in family matters. www.dawsoncornwell.com |
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John AustinFormer Labour MP 1992-2010 and 2009 rapporteur for Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men report for The Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe. The urgent need to combat so-called “honour crimes” |
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Clive DriscollDCI of the Specialist Crime Directorate at Metropolitan Police. Worked on the Surjit Athwal case in the UK. |
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Jasvinder Sangherahttp://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/
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Shahien Taj MBEShahien is the founder and Executive Director of the Henna Foundation. Shahien is experienced in both in Criminal & Family Court proceedings and regularly called upon to advise and assist in cases and matters’ relating to Forced Marriage and ‘Honour’ based Violence. In her capacity as an expert witness to date Shahien has been formally instructed in a number of Court proceedings to undertake specialist 360° HBV Risk Assessments including the reported case: A Chief Constable v A and others [2010] EWHC (Fam) 2438; http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed75229. The 360° HBV Risk Assessment framework has been developed through working “with” victims of ‘honour’ based violence and commended in the same reported case by the President of the Family Division. |
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USA & CANADA
CANADA————————————–
Aruna PappMA, ADR, MEd., has worked as a social worker and counselling families dealing with domestic violence and honour based violence. Aruna is survivor of domestic violence. For the past 30 years she was worked with South Asian Families dealing with domestic violence and has founded 3 agencies which assist immigrant families. She has written extensively on the issue of Domestic ‘Violence in the South Asian Community” and is the authour of “Culturally Driven Violence against Women.” Her book “Unworthy Creature: A Daughter’s Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love” will be released in February 2012 by McCleland & Stewart. For the past 15 years Aruna Papp has been conducting training workshop for frontline service providers helping them to understand honor based violence, identify predictor, and causes in order to prevent honor based violence. |
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Dr. Shahrzad MojabShahrzad Mojab, Professor of adult education, educational policy studies and women’s studies at the University of Toronto. Her extensive publications include books, articles and book chapters, some of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, French, German, and Swedish. She is the editor and co-editor of: Educating from Marx: Race, gender and Learning (2011) and Women, War, Violence, and Learning (2010); Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (2004); Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (2001); and Women of A Non-State Nation: The Kurds (2001 and second print in 2003). Professor Mojab’s work is making knowledge accessible to public through the use of arts such as story-telling, dance, drama, painting and film. Her recent documentaries are Talking Prison, Creating Art and Making Justice; and Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance. Professor Mojab is the recipient of several prestigious awards, notably in 2010 she received the Royal Society of Canada’s Award in Gender Studies.. |
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Sharla MusabihSharla Musabih is the founder and director of United Hope United Action for Empowerment. |
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ASIA
BANGLADESH——————————–
Sara Hossainis a barrister practicing in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and is associated with several legal aid and human rights groups nationally and internationally. She is, among others, a member of the Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association (ILA), Member of the Advisory Committee of the Women’s International Coalition on Gender Justice (WICG). Sara earlier ran the South Asia Programme at INTERIGHTS from 1997 to 2003, and was involved in supporting human rights litigation before national and international courts including the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee on the use of international and comparative human rights law, on a multi-country study on honour crimes (together with the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS), and on training and organizing dialogues and colloquia for judges and lawyers. Sara co-edited with Lynn Welchman) “Honour”: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence against Women. www.khossain.com
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Dr. Dina Mahnaz SiddiqiCultural anthropologist with a focus on gender, human rights and transnational feminist politics. She is a South Asia specialist, with particular expertise on gender and Islam in Bangladesh. Her research and publications concern globalization and human rights, non-state dispute resolution systems, and the cultural politics of Islam. Dr. Siddiqi has worked for leading human rights organizations in Bangladesh and has been a consultant for UNDP, UNICEF and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka. |
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Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services TrustYMCA Building www.blast.org.bd Contact person
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INDIA——————————————–
Shafiq ur Rahman KhanDelhi-based social activist, writer and founder of nonprofit organization EMPOWER PEOPLE dedicated to the prevention of Bride trafficking and Honour Crimes in India. The organization was started with a 300 kilometer March Against Female Foeticide and gender inequality in Haryana in 2005. Currently EMPOWER PEOPLE is working on issues related to women in seven states of India. As research consultant Shafiq presently provides advice and training for several regional and international organizations. He has published four books on trafficking and issues of honour crimes and is frequently published in leading Hindi, Urdu and English Journals and Dailies of India. |
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Geeta Ramaseshanis a lawyer practising in Chennai, India in the area of Constitutional law, criminal law and family law, is an expert on International Human Rights law and has worked extensively in the area of women’s human rights, human rights and child rights. She works pro bono for women living with HIV/AIDS, survivors of custodial violence, women who are survivors of ” honour crimes, ” women and children who are survivors of sexual violence and minority groups that face discrimination. She has been associated with many national campaigns on legislations relating to women and children in India. |
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Dr Ramesh AwasthiCo-Founder of award winning organisation MASUM Dr. Ramesh Awasthi has worked 35 years on issues of rural empowerment by creating leadership amongst the most marginalised sections within that society.In 2006, along with the Department of Politics, University of Mumbai and the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), MASUM organised a South Asia seminar on ‘Honour’ Killings. From 2008 onwards Ramesh and Manisha have been co-ordinating a project on “Crimes in the Name of Honour: Strategising for Women’s Rights in South Asia”. The project culminates in a book with more than 15 papers from eminent interventionists, lawyers and academicians from seven countries (Bangladesh, Britain, Canada, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and the USA). |
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Manisha GupteCo-founder of MASUM, a rural women’s organisation. Manisha has been part of the women’s movement since the mid 1970s. She has also been an activist in the health and civil rights movements in India. She is actively associated with pro-people and progressive organisations nationally, regionally and internationally as an advisor, trainer or board member. In 2006, along with the Department of Politics, University of Mumbai and the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), MASUM organised a South Asia seminar on ‘Honour’ Killings. Currently Manisha is about to submit her PhD thesis entitled “Walking the Tight-Rope of Honour and Power: Women and the Politics of Patriarchy” through the Department of Sociology, University of Pune. Her earlier formal training (M.Sc.) is in Microbiology, from the University of Mumbai.www.masum-india.org |
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Prof. Prem ChowdhryIndependent researcher and Former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in India.Author of Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007. |
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Hina JilaniActively defended human rights for more than thirty years, she started AGHS Legal Aid Cell (ALAC), Pakistan’s first all-female legal aid practice. Internationally recognized for her expertise in critical human rights investigations, Jilani is particularly engaged with the human rights of women, children, minorities, bonded and child labour, and political and other prisoners. |
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Asma JahangirAdvocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a human rights activist, who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the persecution of women, and exploitation of children. |
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Dr. Tahira S. KhanAuthor of award winning book Beyond Honour: A Historical Materialist Explanation of Honour Related Violence, Oxford University Press. She has published numerous articles and research reports in various national and international journals and newspapers. Since 1990s, her teaching and research projects have mainly focused on women/gender and politics, violence against women, women and Islam. Based in the US and Pakistan Dr Khan currently works as a private gender consultant. |
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Mohammad Akmal WasimProfessor of Law at Hamdard School of Law, Hamdard University; and Advocate of the Supreme Court. Written and presented papers on Honour Killings in Pakistan and South Asia independently and in collaboration with the British Council and Asian Human Rights Commission. His focus of investigations in honour killings revolve around the impact of culture and religion in gender violence; and the role of state and judicial approaches in Gender Crimes. He is severely critical of the Hudood Laws in force in Pakistan, and finds WPA 2006 to be a “political compromise” maintaining gender discrimination. |
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Justice Nasir (R) Aslam ZahidMore info Coming Soon. |
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Faiza HaswaryLecturer at the “Hamdard School of Law’ where Faiza teaches Hudood Laws. The Zina Ordinance a subset of hudood laws prescribed criminal penalties for sex- related crimes (adultery, fornication, rape kidnapping by enticement attempted rape, sodomy, prostitution,and decietful marriages). Faiza Haswary says these laws are anti- women laws and have had legal and social impact on the status of women in Pakistan, aiding the misogynistic trend consequently resulting in little relief in the cases of honour related crimes. Additionally she assists Pakistani law firms in cases of rape, gang rape and honour related killings. |
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MIDDLE EAST
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Yanar MohammadCo founder and director of Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, Yanar is one of the leading women’s rights campaigners in Iraq setting up women’s shelters and safe houses to protect women threatened by domestic abuse and honour killings. Ongoing activities against trafficking of young women are an effort to save them from sexual slavery or prostitution, runs classes to teach women activists how to confront intolerance. Yanar regularly advocates equality for women on Iraqi radio and television. |
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Ms. Khanim Rahim LatifDirector of Asuda, expert in Social Work Practice and Protection of Gender Based Violence victims and shelteringhttp://www.asuda.org |
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JORDAN——————————————
Rana HusseiniAward winning journalist and human rights defender focused on social issues with a special emphasis on violence against women, as well as the brutal crimes that are committed against Jordanian women in the name of family honour. Rana is the author of the book “Murder In The Name of Honur.” |
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| Suad Abu-Dayyeh, Equality NowMore info Coming Soon. | |
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Professor Evelyne Accad (University of Illinois)Award winning author with a particular focus on gender violence, sexual politics, women in the Middle East and peace activism. Co-authored Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967 (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) in 2009 and Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Modern Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World. Has written numerous papers and articles about honour based violence. |
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| KAFAhttp://www.kafa.org.lb/
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| Bassam AlKadi (Syrian Women Observatory)www.nesasy.org (Arabic)
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AFRICA
EGYPT———————————-
| CEWLAhttp://www.cewla.org/
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