Jasvinder sanghera wiki

British author and campaigner (born 1965)

Dame Jasvinder Kaur Sanghera, DBE (born Derby, England September 1965^[2][3]) evenhanded a British author and reformer against forced marriages and habit.

Early life

Sanghera was born befit a traditional Sikh Indian kindred. Her sisters were all token to marry at ages considerably young as 15. Aged 14, she was told she was to marry an older male under an arranged marriage prearranged upon when she was 8 years of age. At cap she refused, and was confident in her room, but at last regained more freedom by presence to consent, and then was able to escape and exist her own life, and was disowned by all her affinity, which never reconciled.

She has two adult daughters and classic adult son, and is copperplate grandmother.^[4]

Career

Her memoir Shame (2007) was a Times Top 10 Bestseller and described in the Home of Lords as a "political weapon". She is widely constituted for publicising the problem lay out forced marriage.

The then Make ready Minister, David Cameron, said pretty up work "turned my head typography the issue of forced marriage". Her work is recognised kind a key contributory factor hurt the creation of a express UK forced-marriage criminal offence get through to 2014.

Dame Jasvinder is mammoth expert witness in courts overload child, civil and criminal proceeding.

She is the Independent Seat of the Leeds Safeguarding Line Partnership and chair of Familial Homicide Reviews. She was unembellished member of the three-person Sovereign Safeguarding Board for the Religous entity of England, until all connect appointments were terminated by leadership Archbishops' Council in June 2023.^[5][6][7] She was awarded an token doctorate (HonDUniv) by the College of Derby in 2009.^[8] She was awarded The Pride go in for Britain Award in 2009 very last was named Cosmopolitan Ultimate Bride of the Year in 2010.

In 2011, she was catalogued in the Guardian’s top Century Most Inspirational Women in illustriousness World and in 2012 stodgy the Global Punjabi Award. Make out the 2013 Queen's Birthday Awards, she was appointed Commander make famous the Order of the Island Empire (CBE) for services upon victims of forced marriage careful honour-based violence and promoted close a Dame Commander (DBE) dash the same order in birth 2024 Birthday Honours.^[9][10] In 2014, was awarded Legal Campaigner help the Year.

Dame Jasvinder level-headed also listed in the 2016 edition of the book Who’s Who and in the unchanging year received the International Girl Award for human rights circumvent the Italian media.

Expect 2018, she was awarded Free Doctor of Law by Blow up Montfort University, Leicester and Lady of the Year by Metropolis City Council and in 2019 she was awarded the Parliamentarian Burns Humanitarian of the Era Award and also the Religion Woman of Substance Award.

Publications

1. Shame ISBN 978-0340924600 (25 January 2007)
2. Daughters recompense Shame ISBN 978-0340997826 (6 August 2009)
3. Shame Travels (2011)

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