Amineh Kakabaveh

Amineh Kakabaveh (Persian: اَمینه کاکاباوه; born 6 December 1970)[2] is a Swedish formerly Left Party politician of Iranian Kurdish descent.[4] She has been a member of the Parliament of Sweden since 2008.

Amineh Kakabaveh
Member of the Riksdag
Assumed office
18 June 2008
ConstituencyStockholm County
In office
17 June 2008 – 16 February 2008
As a substitute MP
ConstituencyStockholm County
Personal details
Born (1970-12-06) 6 December 1970
Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Imperial State of Iran[1][2]
Political partyIndependent (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations		Left Party (until 2019)
Komalah[3]
Alma materStockholm University (MA)
OccupationSocial work

Before fleeing to Sweden, via Greece and Turkey, she joined the Komalah, and ended up as a Peshmerga fighter at the age of thirteen.[3] Before entering the parliament, Kakabaveh earned a master's degree in social work at Stockholm University, and worked as a social worker in Stockholm.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] Her autobiography Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov ("Amineh – not bigger than a Kalashnikov") was published in 2016, detailing her time with the Peshmerga.[8]

In 2019, she was threatened to be expelled from the Left Party, as a result of a prolonged conflict with the party leadership. Before the issue was settled, she left the party voluntarily.[9]

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". rudaw.net. Rudaw Media Network. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  4. "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh fights on". Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. "Laying Kalashnikov to Rest, Amineh Kakabaveh Fights On". Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  6. "Den feministiska och antirasistiska gräsrotsrörelsen". varkenhoraellerkuvad.se. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  7. "Årets svensk - Fokus". Fokus (in Swedish). 15 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  8. "Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov : från peshmerga till riksdagsledamot - Ordfront förlag". ordfrontforlag.se. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  9. Thomsen, Dante (28 August 2019). "Amineh Kakabaveh utesluts ur Vänsterpartiet" (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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