“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.  

Hosts Peter Jackson and Anjon Mallik, hear about Jasvinder’s early life and the cultural pressures she faced; the emotional impact of being disowned by her family, and how she turned personal trauma into a lifelong mission to advocate on behalf of abuse victims of all kinds.