Her name was Sabina Nessa:

End Femicide Now.

This event is held in memory and honour of Sabina Nessa: teacher, nature-lover, friend, daughter and sister.

Greenwich alumni Sabina Nessa was killed on 17th September 2021.

The man who killed her finally pled guilty to her murder on Friday 25th February 2022.

Date: Thursday, 17th March 2022

Time: 7-9PM*

Location: Greenwich Campus and on Microsoft Zoom

Tickets: This event is free to attend, tickets will be available for in-person and online attendance.

*Joining times will vary for in-person and online attendance, specific start times will be confirmed via email nearer the time.

ABOUT THIS EVENT

One woman is killed every 3 days in the UK, with 92% of women killed by someone they know. Research from the Femicide Census indicates that rather than killings of women being ‘random attacks’ by ‘evil men’ these homicides are not isolated, and many follow repeated patterns.

Come and listen, learn and join the Sabina Project and our panel of speakers in saying we have had enough of men killing women.

Kareema Motala President of the Sabina Society:

‘Sabina's murder was a tragic loss to the community and her family. Sarah Everard had significant media coverage nationally, where as Sabina's was minimally covered. As a BAME woman myself I have directly asked the Equality minister why this is? It is deeply worrying that women like myself who are murdered do not get a fraction of the coverage that caucasian women do.’

SPEAKERS

Chair: Ruth Tweedale (Senior Lecturer in Law, Greenwich)

Jebina Islam: Sabina – my sister

A tribute to Sabina Nessa from her sister Jebina.

Karen Ingala Smith

CEO of Nia and co-founder and Director of the Femicide Census

Karen Ingala Smith is Chief Executive of nia, an East London charity providing services for women, girls and children who have been subjected sexual and domestic violence, including prostitution, a position she has held since 2009. Karen has ensured that nia has maintained an undaunted and proudly articulated feminist commitment to woman-centred service provision during an unfavourable economic and political climate. She has over 30 years’ experience in the women’s sector encompassing frontline delivery, operational and strategic management and governance.

She is a co-founder and Director of the Femicide Census; and has also been recording and commemorating UK women killed by men since 2012 in a campaign called Counting Dead Women following the murder of a young woman in Hackney.

Karen is a doctoral candidate looking at men’s fatal violence against women at the University of Durham. She was awarded the Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2014 National Diversity Awards.

Karen will be sharing insights and findings from Counting Dead Women and the Femicide Census about men’s fatal violence against women in the UK.

Kareema Motala

President of the Sabina Project

A law students perspectives on Sabina’s death and the route ahead.

Dr. Hannana Siddiqui

Head of Policy and Research at Southall Black Sisters. Campaigner, author and research expert on violence against black & minority women & girls

Dr Hannana Siddiqui is a multi-award winning activist, researcher and policy advocate working at Southall Black Sisters and as a freelance consultant. She has worked on violence against black and minority ethnic (BME) women and girls in the UK for about 35 years. Her wide range of work has included undertaking casework, strategic litigation and expert reports as well as policy advocacy, campaigning, providing training to professionals and research on domestic abuse, forced marriage, domestic homicide and so called ‘honour killings and ‘honour’ based abuse (HBA), suicide and self-harm, immigration and asylum law, no recourse to public funds (NRPF), racism and religious fundamentalism.

This talk will focus on black and minority women and femicide and, the difference in outrage and immediacy of the response when a woman of colour is killed.

Dr. Louise Owusu-Kwarteng

Associate Prof. Sociology and Sabina’s Personal Tutor

A eulogy to Sabina

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