A Turning Point: in ending "honour" based abuse.

IKWRO's annual #16Days event at this historic moment in the movement to end “honour” based abuse, as we are on the verge of banning the harmful practices of child marriage, virginity testing and hymenoplasty. With MP's and experts, we will be discussing IKWRO’s Virginity Does Not Define Me and Safeguard Futures Ban Child Marriage campaigns, and the holistic approach required to challenge the patriarchal and misogynistic norms that underpin "honour" based abuse. Speakers: Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commisioner Pauline Latham OBE MP Richard Holden MP Diana Nammi, Executive Director, IKWRO - Women's Rights Organisation Payzee Mahmod, Child Marriage Survivor, Campaigner, IKWRO - Women's Rights Organisation Sara Browne, Campaign Manager, IKWRO - Women's Rights Organisation Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at UWL and Chartered Counselling Psychologist Naomi Wiseman, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, drafted proposed legislation to ban hymenoplasty and the child marriage Bill Mr Ashfaq Khan, leading gynaecologist and obstetrician Sahar Zand, Reporter, 'Britain's 'Virginity' Clinics Uncovered', Hardcash production for ITV