In Commemoration of Fadime Sahindal
Never forget Pela and Fadime Association - 16.01.2003 21:09
Conference on Honour Killings, oppression of women: culture and politics or cultural politics
17-19 January 2003
Stockholm, Sweden
The conference will commemorate Fadime Sahindal who was murdered on 21 January 2002 by her father in Uppsala, Sweden. The first day of the conference will be in Swedish, the second in English and the third day in Kurdish. Speakers include: Azar Majedi, Maryam Namazie, Azar Modaresi, Azam Kamguyan, Nasek Ahmad, Parvin Kaboli, Sara Mohammad, Halale Taheri, Nawal Sadawi, Taslima Nasrin, Elizabett Fritz, Gunilla Sterner, Maria Rashidi, Krister Gustafsson, Ayda Soleiman, Nazand Bagikhani, Lise Bergh, Nazaneen Rashid, Walide Molla, Nazanin Saleh, and others.
The themes that the conference will focus on are:
Support for vulnerable women and female refugees and asylum seekers.
Women's rights are human rights.
Women's rights: Battlefield between secularism and Islamic politics
Honour killings, oppression of women: culture and politics or cultural politics
Terror of women and the phenomenon of honour killings
How to create changes for women
Fundamental rights of women in Kurdistan
For further information, please contact Sara Mohammad, Chairwoman of the Never forget Pela and Fadime Association
E-mail:  sara_mohammad1607@yahoo.se
or pela_fadime@yahoo.se
Tel:0046-70 44 11 075
Halale Taheri, Chairwoman of the Union for the Defense of the Human Rights in Kurdistan E-mail: halale_taheri@yahoo.com
Tel: 0046-73 61 62 211
Asad Mohammad Kamal, Chairman of the Cultural Association of Kurds in Sweden
E-mail: nodinyan_a57@yahoo.se
Tel: 0046-73 65 35 567.
 Website: http://www.pelafadime.org
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