British Muslim women’s helpline: their voices won’t go unheard again
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British Muslim women’s helpline: their voices won’t go unheard again
Today [14 January 2015] sees the launch of the first national helpline for Muslim women and girls, tackling problems such as sexual abuse, forced marriage and divorce – still taboo subjects in their communities. Alia Waheed speaks to the people behind it.
By Alia Waheed
When the Muslim Women’s Network (MWNUK) launched a report, last year, on sexual exploitation in the Asian community, it could only have dreamed that something like this would come to pass.
That report was called Unheard Voices – The Sexual Exploitation of Asian Girls and Young Women. Its publication coincided with the revelations around child sexual exploitation by Asian gangs in Rotherham and challenged the view that the issue was purely one of race and that somehow, Asian girls were left untouched by abusers because of loyalties to their own culture.
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