Amineh Kakabaveh

Sonntag, 06. Dezember 1970

Amineh Kakabaveh (Persian: اَمینه کاکاباوه; born 6 December 1970) is a Swedish formerly Left Party politician of Iranian Kurdish descent. She has been a member of the Parliament of Sweden since 2008. Before fleeing to Sweden, via Greece and Turkey, she joined the Komalah, and ended up as a Peshmerga fighter at the age of thirteen. Before entering the parliament, Kakabaveh earned a master's degree in social work at Stockholm University, and worked as a social worker in Stockholm. Inspired by the French movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores nor Doormats), Kakabaveh, in 2005, founded the feminist and anti-racist organization Varken hora eller kuvad. As a politician and opinion maker, Kakabaveh is involved with topics such as honour crimes, women's rights, and secularism. Her work has