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Winners 1999
Individual Award: Naseem Shah
Naseem Shah began a campaign to free her mother, Zoora Shah, who was convicted in 1992 for the murder of her abusive partner and pimp and sentenced to life imprisonment. “I won’t stop until the day [my mother] comes home,” Naseem says.
Group Award: Franki
Their work was originally aimed at helping young women who were sexually abused and homeless, but they eventually came to focus on aiding young women in prison and in street prostitution.
Other Nominees 1999
Individuals
Ruth Bundy – Ruth, a civil rights lawyer, campaigned for compensation for victims of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Diana Butler – Convicted of murdering her former partner following a history of abuse and violence, fought her case against CJS with the support of Yorkshire Justice for Women, and successfully appealed her conviction. Through publicising her own case, she supported other women’s cases and other victims of domestic abuse.
Efna Graham – worked with FORWARD to prevent female genital mutilation through, ‘Cutting the Rose.’
Patricia Holmes - supported women involved in prostitution and survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse in prison for 20 years in Manchester.
Professor Liz Kelly – Director of the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit. In 1999 she was awarded a CBE as recognition for her services to combat violence against women and children.
Sandra McNeill – Long-term activist against domestic violence, pornography and rape; one of the backbones of Justice for Women.
Indira Patel OBE – brought to the attention of policy makers the plight of young Asian women forced into marriage as being akin to modern day slavery, and therefore a violation of human rights.
Hannana Siddiqui – After an eight-year campaign Hannana and Southall Black Sisters succeeded in getting the government to significantly change rulings that trapped immigrant women in violent marriages. When the ruling was overturned, it made it possible for women to prove that they were facing domestic violence and therefore were exempt from having to stay with their abusive partners.
Groups
Prakcash – Worked to ensure that Saudi Arabian women who had been brought to the UK by wealthy foreign nationals and had escaped this forced labour, would not be deported immediately.
Warrington Women’s Group – A 6th form school drama group, devised a play around the subject of violence against women, ‘Ring Around the Rosie.’