Remembering the young women killed and tortured in so-called honour-based violence.

This year 14 July marks the third National Day of Memory for ‘Britain’s Lost Women’ – the victims of honour-based violence.

This date was chosen to to be a day of remembrance because 14 July was the birthday of Shafilea Ahmed, who was brutally murdered by her parents in 2003 at the age of just 17 because she wanted to live her own life and have a career instead of entering into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.