{"id":645,"date":"2014-10-13T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T10:03:36","slug":"diana-nammi-on-womens-rights-we-should-not-use-culture-to-justify-murdering-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/diana-nammi-on-womens-rights-we-should-not-use-culture-to-justify-murdering-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Nammi on women&#8217;s rights: &#8216;We should not use culture to justify murdering women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p>Diana Nammi has been battling for women\u2019s rights since she was a teenager growing up in Iran. A former Peshmerga fighter who came to the UK in 1996, she has been instrumental in the campaign to bring honour killers to justice in British courts as well as striving to get forced marriages banned in this country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent\">\n<div class=\"body \">\n<p>Her achievements will be recognised when she is named as one of the six recipients of the Barclays Women of the Year Awards in London tomorrow. She has earned this for her work at the Iranian and Kurdish Women\u2019s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), which she founded in her home in 2002 to provide advice and counselling for women from Middle Eastern, North African and Afghan communities. It now has 16 paid staff and last year helped 780 women face to face as well as taking thousands of phone calls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/incoming\/article9789222.ece\/alternates\/w460\/diana-nammi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/diana-nammi-on-womens-rights-we-should-not-use-culture-to-justify-murdering-women-9789223.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Nammi has been battling for women\u2019s rights since she was a teenager growing up in Iran. A former Peshmerga fighter who came to the UK in 1996, she has been instrumental in the campaign to bring honour killers to justice in British courts as well as striving to get forced marriages banned in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,53,4,10,154],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-women-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}