Aneeta prem biography

Aneeta Prem is the founder and CEO of Freedom Charity and has recently been honoured with an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's.
Aneeta Prem is a British author, human rights campaigner, magistrate and the founder and president of Freedom.
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Celebrating the MBE Award for Aneeta Prem, Founder of Freedom Charity

Freedom Charity’s founder Aneeta Prem receives MBE in New Year’s Honours

We are delighted that our beloved founder Aneeta Prem has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List in recognition of Freedom’s outstanding work over more than a decade to eradicate abusive practices such as Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation.

Aneeta said: “I am proud and humbled to accept this recognition for everyone involved in Freedom Charity’s work to eradicate dishonour-based abuse. Together we have helped to outlaw practices such as Forced and Child Marriage and Virginity Testing and to raise awareness of abuses such as Female Genital Mutilation. This vital work must and will continue, spurred on by our never-ending commitment to supporting survivors and those at risk. This award is for them, not for me.”

Freedom Charity Chair Daniel Smith JP added: “Aneeta Prem has devoted her working life to supporting those most at risk. She works tirelessly to educate the next generation and to rescue and support

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Aneeta Prem

British woman activist

Aneeta Prem is a British author, human rights campaigner, magistrate and the founder and president of Freedom.^[1]

Background

Prem was born in London, England. Her father, Chandra Shekhar Prem, was an author, poet and principal of a girls' college in India.^{[citation needed]} Her family originates from Himachal Pradesh in Northern India.^{[citation needed]} Prem has close ties with Kote Village, where her father lived.^{[citation needed]} In 2000 she helped her father to realise his dream of allowing local girls to continue with their education beyond the age of sixteen.^{[citation needed]} She helped to design and build Republic College India which provides further education in a safe, single-sex environment, offering a unique service to the area.^{[citation needed]}

Work as a magistrate

Prem is a magistrate who chairs adult, youth and family law courts in some of the busiest courts in London.^[2] She is also involved in the recruitment, training and mentor

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Cut Flowers

July 25, 2024

A middle grade book on Female Genital Mutilation to raise awareness is a good idea, but this one contains some questionable messaging that stops me from believing it would be appropriate for a kid to read. It contains the lines "they believed that it was OK for me to grow up never feeling like a complete woman" and "they took her womanhood away" in relation to FGM. These comments are never challenged within the story. While I understand that some adult women may want to describe their experiences this way, I think it's irresponsible and damaging to promote the idea to young girls that their genitals are what make them a woman, and therefore if their genitals get damaged it makes them less of a woman. It might be especially upsetting for a girl who is already a survivor of FGM to read. There also seems to be a reluctance to properly explain FGM within the story. The children being held down and "cut" is described, but not whereabouts on the body it's happening. There are mentions of the adult survivors of FGM having issues with urinating and sex. Katie lea