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MECWR and KRWO Response to the Association of
Chief Police Officers (Draft) Honour Based Violence Strategy
MECWR and KRWO are strongly supporting the voices of women's
organisations and violence against women (VAW) campaigns that affirm
that the UK Government must comply with
its international commitment on tackling VAW........Read
more |
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Combating "Honor" - based Violence Forum
Respect
and Remembrance Service for for Banaz Mahmod |
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Another honour killing at North Iraq –
Kurdistan
This information is extracted from
www.kurdistannet .org website on 22nd May 2007 and Jamawar newspaper
published 21st May 2007, about a young nineteen year old Kurdish
girl named Shawbo Ali Raoof, who was killed on 12th May 2007, by her
husband and other members of his family, near Koya highway en route
to Arbil.........Read
more |
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The Police's Failed Response to a potential 'Honour Killing'
In an article of the Times Newspaper dated
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, on the murder trial of Banaz
Mahmod, it was reported that a junior police officer, Constable
Angela Cornes, was instructed by her senior detective, Detective
Inspector Caroline Goode, to omit parts of her statement. This
omission called into question the character of Banaz, a 20 year old
Kurdish woman murdered in January of 2006........Read
more |
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Report
of the first conference of the Coalition to
stop deportations to Iraq 24 June 2006
The
coalition to stop Deportations to Iraq held
a successful and well attended conference in
London on Saturday 24 June. In the first
session chaired by Sarah Parker John
McDonnell MP said that in his view some
people in the government support an amnesty
in some form, and urged the campaign to make
the best possible use of the next six months
to keep putting the arguments for a review
of unresolved asylum cases to more
MPs,........Read
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Sawsan
Salim delivered this speech at the Coalition
to stop deportation to Iraq conference in
London on 24th. June 2006!
Hello
Everyone,
For those
of you who do not know me - my name Sawsan
Salim and I am the Co-ordinator for the
Kurdistan Refugee Women’s Organisation. I
would like to start by thanking John
McDonnell for generous support to KRWO and
the work we are doing. I would like to thank
Sara and Dashty from the International
Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), for the
great work they are doing for the Iraqi
asylum seekers.......Read
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Banaz,
another victim of honour killings?
Banaz, Mahmoud Babakir Agha, was disappeared
on January 23, 2006. A 20 years old woman of
Kurdish origin who walked out of her
arranged marriage of three years last June
when she returned to live with her family in
Mitcham, south London...........Read
more |
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There's
no such thing as Voluntary Hijab!
By:
Soraya Shahabi |
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Violence under the
cloak of multi-culturalism
"Booklet" |
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A report of
the " Voilence against
women - women against violence" |
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Report on our
Activities 2005 - MECWR |
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Sawsan Salim:
My
Journey to Baghdad
Iraq after war |
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Press
on the work of the International Campaign to
End Honour Killing (ICEHK) on the Murderer
of Suham Qairani |
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An open letter on the killing of Suham Qairani
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Letter to women's organisations
in the Netherlands |
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Remember
Heshu! |
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Letter of
support from Jeremy Corbyn |
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Young girl of 16 stabbed to
death. Father sentenced to life
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London
father jailed for stabbing 16-year-old daughter in "honour killing" |
