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It's going to be an enriching event with the unique combination of these inspiring women: Ms Kirsten Van Den Hul - The Change Agent, Dr Nazand Begikhani - Senior Research Fellow of Bristol University, and Ms Shirin Musa - Director of Femmes for Freedom.

We hope to see you next week!

We would like to invite you to an interactive event Ad Pacem has organized about Honour-Based Violence, next week on the 10th of june, at 16:00 at The Hague University of Applied Sciences: Johanna Westerdijkplein 75, 2521 EN Den Haag.

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A Woman's Worth: Honour and Gender Based Violence

Women’s bodies have become a battle field on which fights over controlling ideologies are fought. In the eyes of many, women embody the family and community honour. As we've seen in recent conflicts, sexual violence, including r**e and slavery, are widespread war strategies. Despite international attempts to address and prosecute these horrendous crimes, many survivers of honour and gender based violence have found it difficult to get access to justice.

But also closer to home, there are many women who suffer from forced marriage, marital captivity, polygamy, honor killing and forced abandonment during a family visit overseas.
On June 10th, Gender @ The Lighthouse invites two experts on honour and gender based violence to talk about the injustice women face and what we can do to break the silence.

This programme is organised in partnership with the Ad Pacem Foundation.

16:00 Welcome and introduction by moderator Kirsten van den Hul.

16:10 Mini-lecture on Honour-Based Violence and Justice in Conflict Zones by Dr Nazand Begikhani, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Centre for Gender and Violence Research

16:40 questions from the audience, moderated by Kirsten van den Hul

16:50 Presentation by Shirin Musa, founder of Dutch NGO Femmes for Freedom, on their work in the fight against marriage captivity, forced marriage and honour killings in the Netherlands

17:10 Q&A with Kirsten van den Hul and both speakers and the audience. Questions could include:
-is this topic high enough on the political and academic agenda?
-what can/should we do at school?
-what can/should we do as individuals, if we suspect someone we know is the victim of honour violence and/or forced marriage/marriage captivity?

17:45 Closing words by Kirsten van den Hul, drinks at Lighthouse Café

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One of the speakers will be Dr Nazand Begikhani Ph.D. She is a leading researcher from Bristol University on gender-based violence and has conducted research on many aspects of violence and gender relations, including honour-based violence and honour killings in Iraqi Kurdistan Region and inside the UK Kurdish diaspora, r**e and sexual violence in Iraq and Syria, domestic violence, and family policy and practice in Kurdistan. She is currently researching sexual violence and slavery in the Middle East, focusing on ISIS war strategies.

Dr. Nazand has worked as an expert advisor and mentor with a range of national and international NGOs and government departments, including, the United Nation’s Assistance Mission to Iraqi (UNAMI), the UN Women, the UK Metropolitan Police, Swedish Ministry of Integration, Kurdistan Regional Government Commission on Violence against Women, Kurdish Women’s Action against Honour Killings, Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch and Amnesty International. She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan. She is also an international adviser to Kurdistan Region’s PM Nechirvan Barzani, on higher education and gender, as well as an expert witness and member of the Women’s Rights Monitoring Board in Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

She was, for a long period, involved in the campaign against honour-based violence in Europe and has worked in close collaboration with Kurdish and Middle Eastern organisations.
Among many conferences, she addressed the 1995 Beijing fourth World conference on women, the UN’s meeting with the World March of Women 2000, the Paris international conference on Kurdish women (2002), and Sweden’s international conference on honour killings (2004).

More info: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/…/peop…/nazand-begikhani/index.html