Parishti Project

In 2007, Aqsa Parvez, a help-seeking young woman, was denied access to potentially life-saving services because she could not frame her story within the conventional definition of honour-based violence. She was killed by her family because she wanted an education, and a career instead of a marriage.

In 2009, because we learned nothing from the handling of the Parvez investigation, Sahar Shafia was also denied access to potentially life-saving services. She was killed by her family, together with her two sisters, and her father's first wife (her step-mother).

That is why Parishti Project got started, but the more we look, the more ways we find that western laws and South Asian social structures misalign. Parishti Project seeks to bridge that gap.