Interim CEO

Yasmin Rehman is a feminist, human rights activist and researcher. She has worked for more than 3 decades predominantly on violence against women and girls, race, faith and gender, and human rights.

Yasmin is former CEO at Juno Women’s Aid in Nottingham/South Nottinghamshire where she introduced a needs-led, strengths-based and risk assessed model of services and acquired properties for survivors of domestic abuse and their children utilising social investment funds.

Yasmin is often called as an expert witness in legal cases providing expert reports on faith-based abuse, honour-based abuse, forced marriage and polygamy. She co-edited a book, Moving in the Shadows: Violence in the Lives of Minority Women and Children, contributing two chapters on faith-based abuse and polygamy. Yasmin has written and spoken widely on the links between violence and abuse and the growth in religious fundamentalisms.

Yasmin is currently a Honorary Research at University of Kent, a member of the editorial board of Feminist Dissent, a NED with Pilotlight and a trustee of the Centre for Women’s Justice. She is a former fellow of the Muslim Institute, former board member of EVAW (End Violence against Women Coalition), National Secular Society Council and the Cross-Government Working Group on Hate Crimes.

Yasmin was awarded the Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year 2017.