Amineh Kakabaveh

Amineh Kakabaveh (Persian: آمنه کاکه‌باوه‎; born 6 December 1970)[2] is a Swedish formerly Left Party politician of Iranian Kurdish descent.[3] She has been a member of the Parliament of Sweden since 2008.

Amineh Kakabaveh
Member of the Swedish Parliament
for Stockholm Municipality
Assumed office
2008
Personal details
Born (1970-12-06) 6 December 1970
Saqqez, Iran[1][2]
Political partyLeft Party (2008–2019)
Other political
affiliations		Komalah

Before fleeing to Sweden, via Turkey, she was a member of Komalah and a Peshmerga fighter. Before entering the parliament Kakabaveh was awarded a master's degree in social work at Stockholm University and worked as a social worker in Stockholm.[4] Inspired by the French movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores nor Doormats) Kakabaveh in 2005 founded the feminist and antiracist organization Varken hora eller kuvad.[5] As a politician and opinion maker, Kakabaveh is involved with topics such as honour crimes, women's rights and secularism. Her work has made her a controversial person within Swedish politics and her own Left party, but she has also received the title of "Swede of the year" as awarded by Fokus magazine.[6] Her autobiography Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov ("Amineh – not bigger than a Kalashnikov") was published in 2016, detailing her time with the Peshmerga.[7]

In August 2019 she was expelled from the Left Party as a result of a prolonged conflict with the party leadership.[8]

References
  1. Bozarslan, Mahmut; Bila, Sibel Utku (22 February 2016). "How one Kurdish woman went from child soldier to Swedish lawmaker". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. "Amineh, vänsterpolitiker med en tuff bakgrund flydde kriget som 14-åring" [Amineh, Left Party politician who fled the war at age 14]. Passagen. 7 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh fights on". Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  4. "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh Fights On". Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  5. "Den feministiska och antirasistiska gräsrotsrörelsen". varkenhoraellerkuvad.se. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  6. "Årets svensk - Fokus". Fokus (in Swedish). 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  7. "Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov : från peshmerga till riksdagsledamot - Ordfront förlag". ordfrontforlag.se. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  8. Thomsen, Dante (2019-08-28). "Amineh Kakabaveh utesluts ur Vänsterpartiet" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-08-28.
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