It comprises actions or activities aimed at either upholding or restoring a perceived damage to a family’s honor or reputation. These actions or activities may take on one of these forms: threats, assault, forced marriages, kidnappings, and even killings. Thus, honor-related violence may be physically or mentally perpetuated against potential victims. These kinds of reprisals often take place in closed communities.

There are families which believe any misconduct by a member brings shame, and they are therefore usually driven to either punish or isolate the offender or the entire family.

In our next program, we will be looking into reasons for these honor-related crimes and how these may be spotted and prevented.

Although the phenomenon of abandonment has been around for a much longer time, professionals and authorities have only really noticed its seriousness in recent years, according to KIS researcher Eliane Smits van Waesberghe. This practice is considered child abuse in the Netherlands because of the disruption it introduces into a child’s life after they have been left aboard with a relative and often, in unfamiliar surroundings.

This program is in collaboration with FSAN, and we will be exploring (among other things) what are the early indications of this phenomenon and how it can be stopped before it actually happens.

Exacerbating this problem is the increased trend in global human trafficking, and this calls for everyone to become more aware and also involved, in helping to end this abuse.

Here in the Netherlands, the summer holidays have become an uneasy period for some young people, who are at an extra high risk of either forced marriage, abandonment, or even FGM. For this reason, the government and local authorities tend to focus on preventive campaign measures.

In this program we will spotlight forced marriages, engaging relevant subject-matter experts and stakeholders within the migrant community to discuss the issue.

In this upcoming broadcast, we will be evaluating the impact of Covid on FGM campaigns. This we will be doing with the help of a brilliant and active guest; a youth ambassador of FGM by the name of Alya Harding.

Alya is also the founding director of Valued Minds and an active campaigner for women’s

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign against FGM globally had been running quite well for about three decades. Due to the pandemic, however, much of the work and access to vulnerable areas have either suffered, been slowed down, or have been halted altogether (source: Lancet Public Health).

In this program we will be evaluating the consequences of this trend, with possible recommendations from experts to relevant stakeholders on what to do about it, and how to get the campaigns back on track.