Dame Jasvinder Sanghera: From Sur...
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Dame Jasvinder Sanghera: From Survival to Social Justice
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“What drives me is injustice.” 

Dame Jasvinder Sanghera is a leading authority on forced marriage and honour-based abuse. Jasvinder herself is a survivor of forced marriage and ran away from home, aged 16, to escape “having to marry a stranger”. 

She later founded Karma Nirvana, a national award-winning charity that supports people affected by these injustices and crimes.  Her acclaimed memoir “Shame”, became a Times Top Ten Bestseller, and was described in the House of Lords as a “political weapon”, which influenced the enactment of the Forced Marriage Act 2007.  

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