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Here’s where we blow our own trumpet. We’ve come a very long way since those early days when Jasvinder was still in that tiny room in Derby with her one chair and desk.
Eighteen years, two best-sellers and a Forced Marriage Act later, and we’re more confident than ever that our ambition of a society free from honour-based violence is ever more in view.
Most recently, we’ve managed to secure a grant from the Ministry of Justice which will keep our Honour Network help-line up and running over the next three years, meaning we now have more resources to reach victims and save lives.
A short historical timeline of us:
Jasvinder Sanghera
Jasvinder has continued to be the recipient of multiple coveted awards.
In 2011, she was listed in the Guardian’s Top 100 most inspirational women in the world, proudly taking her place alongside respected campaigning heavyweights Shami Chakrabarti and Margaret Chan.
She joined the ranks of Cosmopolitan’s fun, fearless females when she scooped up the Ultimate Woman’s Woman award in 2010. She has also been the recipient of the Pride of Britain award (2009), the Asian Women Achievement Award (2005), the Metropolitan Police GG2 Diversity Award (2005) – plus a whole host of others.
She won the Woman of the Year Award 2007 – ‘Saluting a woman, whose courage and determination to bring our attention to the injustices of forced marriages, has changed and shaped the way we think about the world’.