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The IOS Awards | 20th April 2010

Jasvinder Sanghera has been awarded 'The IOS Happy List 2010' Please see following link: http://www.independent.co. ... Full article »

Independent Article | 7th April 2010

Survivors of forced marriage go on UK tour: The Karma Nirvana team and Survivors of Forced Marriages will travel the country urging children at risk to ... Full article »

It is not part of anyone's culture to be abused | 18th December 2009

Tulay Goren's death won't be the last so long as misplaced cultural sensitivity stops us acting against forced marriages Twice, in the weeks before ... Full article »

Honour Network Helpline Petition Launched | 27th October 2009

Karma Nirvana have announced that the Honour Network Helpline will cease to operate at the end of December 2009. The Honour Network Helpline 0800 5999 247 ... Full article »

Jasvinder Sanghera Receives Pride of Britain award | 7th October 2009

Jasvinder Sanghera, who fled from her home to escape from being forced into marriage at the age of 15, was given the Pride of Britain award for her ... Full article »

Shame | 1st September 2009

SHAME Jasvinder Sanghera's bestselling memoir of how she escaped from forced marriage and set up her charity Karma Nirvana. It reached No.2 in The Sunday ... Full article »

Daughters of Shame | 1st September 2009

DAUGHTERS OF SHAME 'Gripping, and anger-fuelling ... this is an important book, written with calm, steady intelligence.' India Knight, The Sunday Times In ... Full article »

Soroptimist International : Karma Nirvana | 3rd August 2009

Karma Nirvana means peace and enlightenment. It was named in the hope that their work would make a positive impact on the lives of individuals who would, by ... Full article »

NTDTV : Forced Marriages to be Illegalized in the UK? | 26th March 2009

In Britain, women who have been the victims of forced marriage are calling on the United Kingdom's government to make the practice a crime. Full article »

GONE : Forced Marriage Conference | 25th March 2009

Government Office for the North East held a ground breaking and, in some cases life changing, conference in Newcastle on 16 March that saw women with direct ... Full article »

Womensgrid : Jasvinder Sanghera Interview | 16th January 2009

Interview Jasvinder Sanghera, founder of charity Karma Nirvana, whose latest book, Daughters of Shame, highlights dozens of shocking true stories. Full article »

The Guardian - Public Inquiry : Jasvinder Sanghera | 14th January 2009

Your new book, Daughters of Shame, tells the stories of victims of forced marriage. What can we learn from them? Full article »

BBC News : Forced Marriage Law 'Being Used' | 9th January 2009

New powers to protect suspected forced marriage victims have been used six times since the law was introduced, the BBC Asian Network has found. The law, ... Full article »

Times Online : Forced Marriages Society Will Be a Defining Issue of 2009 | 4th January 2009

One of the most touching aspects of the story of Humayra Abedin - the 33-year-old doctor with a Hindu boyfriend who was tricked into travelling home to ... Full article »

Kent Police : Tackling Domestic Abuse | 19th November 2008

The Kent and Medway Domestic Violence Strategy Group is holding a multi-agency conference to raise awareness of domestic abuse. Full article »

Times Online : Forced to Marry Her Cousin at 17 | 24th July 2008

Until he arrived for the wedding ceremony, Shazia Qayum had seen her husband-to-be only in a photograph of family gatherings. That was hardly surprising — ... Full article »

CRP News : Leicester Hosts First 'Honour-based' Crime Roadshow | 8th June 2008

'Honour-based' crimes - often related to forced marriage - are a hidden scourge, says the government. A series of roadshows around the country aims to lift ... Full article »

AWID : The High Price of Freedom | 12th February 2008

Every year in Britain, the Forced Marriage Unit, run jointly by the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, deals with 300 cases of forced ... Full article »

TIME Magazine: Marriage Rows | 23rd January 2007

It's an old South Asian story: boy meets girl just before the wedding. Boy marries girl whether she wants to or not. Girl loses her identity, her sanity ... Full article »

Community Care : My Best Friend Was Killed By Her Dad | 16th November 2006

Karma Nirvana's two staff and most of its 18 volunteers are survivors of forced marriage and honourbased violence. Project founder and director Jasvinder ... Full article »

BBC Asian Network : Love, "Honour" and Obey | 4th September 2006

In July 2006, 25-year old Samaira Nazir's killers were jailed for life. Her 21-year-old brother and teenage cousin murdered her for wanting to marry "an ... Full article »

Community Care : Profile - Jasvinder Sanghera | 14th July 2005

How long in the job? Since 2004. The most painful lesson I've learned at work: The voluntary sector is competitive, with back-stabbing, jealousy and ... Full article »

Times Online : Daughter, Your Life is Over | 12th December 2004

The shocking toll of honour killings continues to rise in Britain. Margarette Driscoll meets a woman whose sister's death drove her to rescue others. On a ... Full article »

BBC - Inside Out : Escaping a Forced Marriage | 27th September 2004

The tradition of forced marriages is becoming a growing threat for many British women of South Asian origin. Inside Out follow a Derby woman who escaped a ... Full article »