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Mussurut Zia is the founder of Practical Solutions, which brings awareness, guidance and training to people dealing with the issues of forced marriage and honor-based violence in Britain.

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Violence in the city made headlines, when high school honor student Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down at age 15 in gang violence.

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