{"id":671,"date":"2018-11-03T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:43:26","slug":"funeral-of-avan-najmadeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2018\/11\/03\/funeral-of-avan-najmadeen\/","title":{"rendered":"funeral\u00a0of Avan Najmadeen."},"content":{"rendered":"

Avan Najmadeen was buried on Friday 26 October 2018 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. We\u00a0believe\u00a0\u00a0that she is yet another victim of patriarchal tradition and violence against women. Her funeral was attended by family members and representatives of two organisations, the International\u00a0Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women\u2019s Organisation (KMEWO).<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The body of 32-year-old Avan Najmadeen was found at her home in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 1 October after teachers informed the police that she had not collected her four children from school.\u00a0A post-mortem examination confirmed that she had died from multiple stab wounds.<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the days following Avan\u2019s tragic death police arrested three men, including her husband and brother-in-law.\u00a0\u00a0Only her\u00a0husband remains in custody.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women\u2019s Organisation (KMEWO) have been in contact with Avan\u2019s family since soon after this horrible crime was committed. They, together with the Kurdish delegation and IFIR, continue to help with investigations and try to ensure Avan\u2019s four bereaved sons, aged between 3 and 8, are returned to her family.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sawsan Salim, Director of KMEWO, and Dashty Jamal, Secretary of IFIR, gave speeches expressing their condolences. They also spoke about why Kurdish women are murdered, the position of individuals within society, the role of organisations protecting women\u2019s rights, and the patriarchal tradition which clouds the political, social and cultural life of Kurds living in Europe and Kurdistan. They also spoke of pressing governments to eradicate this phenomenon and put more effort and resources into opposing violence against women and protecting their rights.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The funeral ended with attendants placing flowers on Avan’s grave and sharing her family\u2019s deep sorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Avan Najmadeen was buried on Friday 26 October 2018 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. We\u00a0believe\u00a0\u00a0that she is yet another victim of patriarchal tradition and violence against women. Her funeral was attended by family members and representatives of two organisations, the International\u00a0Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women\u2019s Organisation (KMEWO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-home","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}