Understanding how to engage in meaningful dialogue about gender-based violence and forced marriage is crucial to foster support and drive societal change Here’s my tips to navigating these conversations more thoughtfully.

When I reflect on my journey, as a lived experience leader campaigning to end forced marriage and honour-based violence, I often question if lived experience is an asset or a liability.

I want to stamp out forced marriage, and so-called honour-based violence, permanently.

Why? Because it happened to me.

Support for forced marriage survivors, the Universal Truth way.

Let me explain: as a forced marriage survivor and a woman who comes from a South-Asian community and religion, falling in love is a privilege I simply did not have.