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SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS

MEDIA COVERAGE

The BBC

  • Black Sisters fight for funding
  • Honour Killings: Woman’s Hour
  • Hitting Home: BBC Asian Network
  • Legal challenge over fire deaths
  • Killer given domestic violence award
  • Tricked into a forced marriage

The Guardian

  • Women’s group call to Cameron
  • For families that fear dishonour, there is only one remedy…murder
  • A veil drawn over brutal crimes
  • Where’s the honour in this?
  • Legal hijacking
  • British woman in forced marriage freed
  • Women’s group presses for fire death inquest
  • Muslim leader backs Blunkett
  • Marriage matters
  • Riddle of the mother who vanished
  • Yes, we feel good about our vaginas
  • Radical route
  • Love, honour and obey – or die
  • Secret aid for forced marriage victims
  • Women who kill given court hope
  • Sisters of mercy
  • Corrections and clarifications
  • Behind closed doors
  • The truth about forced marriage
  • Law may counter forced marriages
  • Police urged to stop forced marriages
  • Help brides forced to wed, study urges
  • Straw cuts jail term for woman who killed ‘abuser’
  • Pushed too far
  • The shadow boxers
  • Women who kill given court hope
  • Oh yes you do
  • Focus on forced Asian marriages
  • Abused wives can quit marriage and stay in UK
  • A question of murder
  • Safe from home
  • Listening Brief

Other sources

  • Save the Sisters – Aditi Charanji in New Statesman
  • Women fight back: Southall Black sisters raise a fist – Third World Network
  • Sisters celebrate as council caves – Ealing Times

Our Work Is Funded By

Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit, secular and inclusive organisation, was established in 1979 to meet the needs of Black (Asian and African-Caribbean) women. Our aims are to highlight and challenge all forms gender-related violence against women, empower them to gain more control over their lives; live without fear of violence and assert their human rights to justice, equality and freedom.

Southall Black Sisters, 21 Avenue Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3BL
Exempted by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, Reference no. 200100577
A company limited by guarantee Registered in England no. 3037955
Funded by London Borough of Ealing

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Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit, secular and inclusive organisation, was established in 1979 to meet the needs of Black (Asian and African-Caribbean) women. Our aims are to highlight and challenge all forms gender-related violence against women, empower them to gain more control over their lives; live without fear of violence and assert their human rights to justice, equality and freedom.

Southall Black Sisters, 21 Avenue Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3BL
Exempted by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, Reference no. 200100577
A company limited by guarantee Registered in England no. 3037955
Funded by London Borough of Ealing

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