Find Help – The AHA Foundation Resource Directory
Nazir Afzal OBE, Director of the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, speaks at The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium 2011
- Resource Directory (PDF)
Training
- The AHA Foundation provides training to law enforcement, educators, shelters, service providers and other organizations working to protecting women and girls. If your organization is interested, please contact us at info@theahafoundation.org for details.
- AHA Foundation Training Curriculum on Honor Violence and Forced Marriage for Law Enforcement and Child Protective Professionals (PDF)
- AHA Foundation Educational Seminar on Honor Violence and Forced Marriage (Recorded Webinar – Youtube)
AHA Foundation Reports
- Violence and Restraints on Women in Islamic Immigrant Communities: A summary of European best practices in approaching these issues and recommendations to U.S. legislators and policymakers (PDF)
- Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Women: Executive Summary and Recommendations (PDF)
- Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Women: Full Report (PDF)
- Female Genital Mutilation Statutes in the United States and United Kingdom (PDF)
- What Do We Know? Facts and figures on the circumstances affecting Muslim girls and women in the United States (PDF)
- U.S. State Laws Governing Minimum Age to Marry (PDF)
Fact Sheets
- Honor Violence (PDF)
- Female Genital Mutilation (PDF)
- Forced Marriage (PDF)
- Sharia Law (PDF)
Conferences
The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium, June 6, 2011, New York City
- Transcript (PDF)
- The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium Highlight Video (Video)
- Lecture: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Founder of the AHA Foundation (Video)
- Lecture: Nazir Afzal OBE, Director of the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (Video)
- Lecture: Lead Prosecutor Laura Reckart and Detective Chris Boughey (Video)
The AHA Foundation 2nd Annual Conference on Honor Violence and Forced Marriage, October 4th, 2012, New York City
- Transcript (PDF)
- Lecture: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Founder of the AHA Foundation (Video)
- Lecture: Nazir Afzal OBE, Director of the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (Video)
- Lecture: Detective Chris Boughey (Video)
- Lecture: Heather Heiman, Senior Policy Attorney, The Tahirih Justice Center (Video)
- Panel Discussion (Video)
Annual Reports
Additional Readings
History, Philosophy and Political Analysis
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. New York: Free Press, 2006.
- Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women and the New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2000 [1899].
- Chesler, Phyllis. “Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?” Middle East Quarterly XVI (2) 2009: 61-69.
- Husseini, Rana. Murder in the Name of Honor. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009.
- Kassindja, Fauziya, Layli Miller Bashir and Karen Musalo. Do They Hear You When You Cry. New York: Delta, 1999.
- Kristof, Nicholas D. and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
- Lewis, Bernard and Buntzie Ellis Churchill. Islam: The Religion and the People. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2008.
- Mandelbaum, David G. Women’s Seclusion and Men’s Honor: Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.
- Nomani, Asra. Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
- Saadawi, Nawal El. The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. London: Zed Books, 1980.
- Sommers, Christina Hoff. “The Subjection of Islamic Women and the fecklessness of American Feminism.” The Weekly Standard 2007 (34): 14-20.
Personal Narratives
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Nomad. New York: Free Press, 2010.
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Infidel. New York: Free Press, 2007.
- Ahmed, Qanta A. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2008.
- Dirie, Waris. Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999.
- Minoui, Delphine and Linda Coverdale. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced. New York: Broadway Books, 2010.
- Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran. New York: Random House, 2003.
- Rodriguez, Deborah and Kristin Ohlson. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil. New York: Random House, 2007.
- Sanghera, Jasvinder. Daughters of Shame. London: Hodder Paperback, 2009.
- Sanghera, Jasvinder. Shame. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007.
- Zanganeh, Lila Azam. My Sister Guard Your Veil: My Brother Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
