No Honour in Murder

 

Kurdish Studies & Students Organisation (KSSO)

together with

 

Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch (KWRW)

present

 

‘Honour’-based Violence and

Women’s Rights in Kurdistan

An Open Forum

Following the tragic murder this month of a teenage Kurdish girl in Mosul, Iraq we are coming together to speak out against ‘honour’ based crimes and remember those who have been its victims universally

 

Participants to include:

·        Nazand Begikhani, Kurdish Women’s Action Against Honour Killing and independent researcher

·        Jane Keeler, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Canterbury Christchurch University

·        Helen Carr, Lecturer in Anthropology, Birkbeck College & Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

·        Choman Hardi, Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch and academic researcher  

·        A representative from Amnesty International

 

May 9th, 2007 @ 19:00

SOAS University, Russell Square,

ROOM B102

For more information please visit:

www.ksso.org.uk or www.kwrw.org

Email: mc@ksso.org.uk

 

 

           

 

04/07/2007

 

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