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Jasvinder Sanghera

British author and campaigner (born )

Dame

Jasvinder Sanghera

DBE

Sanghera (left) in

Born

Jasvinder Kaur


(age&#;59&#;60)

Derby, England

OccupationAuthor
Known&#;forCampaigning against forced marriages and abuse.

Dame Jasvinder Kaur Sanghera, DBE (born Derby, England September [2][3]) is a British author and campaigner against forced marriages and abuse.

Early life

Sanghera was born into a traditional Sikh Indian family. Her sisters were all forced to marry at ages as young as Aged 14, she was told she was to marry an older man under an arranged marriage agreed upon when she was 8 years of age. At first she refused, and was locked in her room, but eventually regained more freedom by appearing to consent, and then was able to escape and live her own life, and was disowned by all her family, which never reconciled.

Jasvinder sanghera biography for kids Dame Jasvinder Kaur Sanghera, DBE (born Derby, England September [2][3]) is a British author and campaigner against forced marriages and abuse. Sanghera was born into a traditional Sikh Indian family. Her sisters were all forced to marry at ages as young as

She has two adult daughters and an adult son, and is a grandmother.[4]

Career

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

The then Prime Minister, David Cameron, said her work "turned my head on the issue of forced marriage". Her work is recognised as a key contributory factor to the creation of a specific UK forced-marriage criminal offence in

Dame Jasvinder is an expert witness in courts in child, civil and criminal proceedings.

Online biography for kids Welcome to the official site of Jasvinder Sanghera CBE. An Unwavering Voice who speaks truth to power Freedom and Dignity. Helping individuals break the silence on unspoken issues that often stay hidden from the limelight.

She is the Independent Chair of the Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership and chair of Domestic Homicide Reviews. She was a member of the three-person Independent Safeguarding Board for the Church of England, until all three appointments were terminated by the Archbishops' Council in June [5][6][7] She was awarded an honorary doctorate (HonDUniv) by the University of Derby in [8] She was awarded The Pride of Britain Award in and was named Cosmopolitan Ultimate Woman of the Year in In , she was listed in the Guardian’s top Most Inspirational Women in the World and in received the Global Punjabi Award.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to victims of forced marriage and honour-based violence and promoted to a Dame Commander (DBE) in the same order in the Birthday Honours.[9][10] In , was awarded Legal Campaigner of the Year.

Dame Jasvinder is also listed in the edition of the book Who’s Who and in the same year received the International Woman Award for human rights from the Italian media. In , she was awarded Honorary Doctor of Law by De Montfort University, Leicester and Woman of the Year by Leeds City Council and in she was awarded the Robert Burns Humanitarian of the Year Award and also the Sikh Woman of Substance Award.

Publications

  1. Shame ISBN&#; (25 January )
  2. Daughters of Shame ISBN&#; (6 August )
  3. Shame Travels ()

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