Shirin Musa
Shirin Musa | |
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 Musa in 2015 | |
| Member of the Senate | |
| Assumed office 23 September 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Jan Anthonie Bruijn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Quetta, Pakistan |
| Political party | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
| Occupation |
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Shirin Musa is a Pakistani-born Dutch politician and women's rights activist who is the founder of Femmes for Freedom.[1] She has introduced the concept of marital captivity to Dutch society.[1]
Musa married a Dutch Pakistani. In 2002 they married for the Dutch law and in 2005 they had their religious marriage. In 2008 they separated. On the 9th of December 2010 the judge also ended her religious marriage, after a long struggle with her husband who refused to cooperate. [2] Musa was born in Quetta, the capital city of the Pakistani province Balochistan and came to the Netherlands as a baby.
Following the stepping down of Jan Anthonie Bruijn, Musa was sworn into the Senate on 23 September 2025, on behalf of the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ZijSpreekt SprekersBureau - Shirin Musa - Vrouwenrechten". www.zijspreekt.nl.
- ^ "De 80/20 Dialogen: Vrouwenrechten".
- ^ "Pim Walenkamp en Shirin Musa beëdigd als Eerste Kamerleden" [Pim Walenkamp and Shirin Musa sworn in as senators]. Parlement.com (in Dutch). 23 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
External links
[edit]- Senate profile (in Dutch)
Senate 13 June 2023 – present | ||
| Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB – 16) |  | |
| GroenLinks–Labour Party (GL–PvdA – 14) | ||
| People's Party for Freedom and Dem. (VVD – 10) | ||
| Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA – 6) | ||
| Democrats 66 (D66 – 5) | ||
| Party for Freedom (PVV – 4) | ||
| Party for the Animals (PvdD – 3) | ||
| JA21 (JA21 – 3) | ||
| Socialist Party (SP – 3) | ||
| Christian Union (SP – 3) | ||
| Forum for Democracy (FvD – 2) | ||
| Volt Netherlands (Volt – 2) | ||
| Reformed Political Party (SGP – 2) | ||
| 50PLUS (50+ – 1) | ||
| Independent Politics Netherlands (OPNL – 1) | ||
Bold indicates the parliamentary leader (first mentioned) and the President; (Brackets) indicate a temporarily absent member; Italics indicate a temporary member; ‹Guillemets› indicate a member who has left the Senate See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2021–2023 · 2023–present | ||
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