Campaigner Farah Naz offers guidance for tackling VAWG

Farah Naz in the Council chamber at Redbridge Town Hall.

Womens’ safety campaigner and activist Farah Naz was thrust in the national spotlight when her niece, the young lawyer Zara Aleena, was murdered by an unknown attacker.

Farah has been a guiding voice as we developed ThisHasToSTOP, offering her input at various stages as we developed the approach. She has talked at length with us about her family’s experience and her hopes that, by engaging children, families, partners and the whole community, we can truly shift the dial on the seemingly ‘low level’ attitudes and behaviours that underpin the violence that caused Zara’s murder.

Farah is convinced that if more people were willing to step and intervene to support when they saw someone being harassed, this would create a step change in women’s safety. She and has campaigned for a Good Samaritan Law which would create a legal responsibility for bystanders to either intervene, if they can do so safely, or call emergency services, if they see someone in extreme danger.