Diana Nammi

Diana Nammi is a Kurdish and British activist. She received a Barclays Woman of the Year Award in 2014.

Life Nammi was born in Iran. Her father was a progressive thinker, who inspired her later activist work. She went on to organize protests in favor of "secularism, equality and human rights" during the 1979 Revolution. She became pregnant in 1991, and fled to Iraq, Turkey, and finally to the United Kingdom in 1996 to raise her child in safety after a chemical bomb attack killed 35 people near the radio station where she worked. The IKWRO works to provide women with legal access and safe places for women to go for refuge. The organization also works to bring issues of honor attacks and honor killings to the attention of the larger public. In 2013, Nammi joined The National Commission on Forced Marriage to help eliminate practices of forced marriage in the United Kingdom. Nammi and her organization were central in getting two of the killers of Banaz Mahmod, who was killed in an honor killing, extradited to the United Kingdom for prosecution. This was the first ever extradition of its kind.

Honors In 2012, Nammi was named one of the 150 Women Who Shake The World by Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Nammi received a Barclays Woman of the Year Award in 2014. Nammi also received a Women on the Move Award from UNHCR in 2014. Also in 2014, she was named one of the BBC's 100 Women. In same year, she was named one of the Women of the Year by the magazine Red. In 2016, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex.

She speaks in publicly regularly to defend the rights of women. Her TEDx speech has been viewed thousands of times of YouTube.

Further media Nammi speaking with the BBC about honor killing statistics in the UK Diana Nammi's TEDxEastEnd talk Tribute video to Nammi by the Women on the Move Awards 2014