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Karen Ingala Smith

Karen Ingala Smith is CEO of nia, a domestic and sexual violence charity working to end violence against women and girls, based in London, UK.[1][2]

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Smith has a BA from University of Kent and a PhD from University of Durham.[3] She is a Director of Woman's Place UK,[4] an organisation that has been described as a transphobic hate group by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights and others.[5][6] In 2020 Smith announced that her application to join the Labour Party had been rejected due to "conduct online that may reasonably be seen to demonstrate hostility based on gender identity."[7]

Her work in recording and commemorating UK women killed by men in a campaign called 'Counting Dead Women' has gained media coverage.[8][9][10] She is a co-creator of 'The Femicide Census' with Women's Aid (England),[11] supported by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and Deloitte LLP. The UK Femicide Census is a database containing information on women killed by men in England and Wales since 2009 (and now including Northern Ireland and Scotland).[12] The Femicide census [13] is a project enabling the monitoring and analysis of men's fatal male violence against women with the aim of contributing to the reduction of the number of women killed by men.[14] By gathering and combining data it is possible for service providers, law enforcement agencies, researchers and policy-makers to see that these killings are not isolated incidents and many follow similar patterns of male violence.[15][16] The Femicide Census launched its first UK report in December 2016.[12][17] In January 2022, data from the Femicide Census revealed that 52 of the men convicted of manslaughter or murder of women in the decade ending 2019 were either serving or past members of the armed forces.[18]

Smith is a trustee of the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize[19] and was awarded the Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2014 National Diversity Awards.[20]

She is a director of Woman's Place UK,[21] an advocacy group which promotes restricting access to safe women-only spaces to women on the basis of "sex, not gender",[22] and has spoken at several of its meetings.[23]

Smith works on issues relating to male violence against women and is often invited as a spokesperson to comment in news reporting.[24][25] Her book Defending Women's Spaces is published by Polity Press in 2022 [26]

References edit

  1. ^ "Karen Ingala Smith". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. ^ "TRUSTEES AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM". nia. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2021. Karen Ingala Smith has been Chief Executive of nia since 2009. Under Karen's leadership, nia has maintained an unapologetic feminist commitment to prioritising women who have been subjected to men's sexual and domestic violence and abuse, including prostitution. During an unfavourable economic climate, Karen has not only ensured nia's survival but built upon its reputation for responding to the needs of the women and children it serves.
  3. ^ University, Durham. "karen-ingala-smith". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Karen INGALA SMITH personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Trans allies pull out of University of Oxford feminist conference over ties with 'clearly transphobic' Woman's Place UK". Pink News. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  6. ^ Weaver, Matthew (13 February 2020). "Labour leadership contenders split over trans group pledge card". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Why I was rejected for Labour Party membership and my response". 27 June 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  8. ^ Smith, Karen Ingala. "Why I have spent a decade counting murdered women". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Karen Ingala Smith". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Karen Ingala Smith | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  11. ^ "16 Days: Counting dead women". Women's Aid. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Femicide Census" (PDF). OHCHR.
  13. ^ "Femicide Census – Profiles of women killed by men". Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  14. ^ Smith, Karen Ingala (2018), "Femicide", The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence, Routledge, pp. 158–170, doi:10.4324/9781315612997-13, ISBN 978-1-315-61299-7, retrieved 3 October 2021
  15. ^ "Femicide census is published which collates data on perpetrator and victims of killing in the UK – ADVANCE programme – substance use and IPV". Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  16. ^ "'Shocking' toll of women killed by men renews call for safe spaces". The Guardian. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  17. ^ "The Femicide Census: 2016 findings. Annual report on cases of femicide in 2016" (PDF). 1q7dqy2unor827bqjls0c4rn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  18. ^ Al-Othman, Hannah; Agnew, Megan (29 January 2022). "The army's shameful secret: domestic abusers are still in uniform". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  19. ^ "Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize". Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  20. ^ "2014 Winners". National Diversity Awards. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Karen INGALA SMITH personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  22. ^ "Why some women don't back 'self-identifying'". BBC News. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2021 – via YouTube.
  23. ^ "Too good for Labour: Karen Ingala Smith". 27 March 2020.
  24. ^ "Femicide: Women are most likely to be killed by their partner or ex". BBC News. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  25. ^ "Details of Sarah Everard case heighten women's sense of despair". The Guardian. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  26. ^ "Defending Women's Spaces | polity". politybooks.com. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
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