Who Is Suella Braverman? Why Is She In News? Why Are Pakistanis Furious At Her?

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Indian-Origin UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman revealed her plans for a new legal duty for people to report child sexual abuse. Recently, on Sunday, 02 April 2023, she attacked a cultural silence by calling out British Pakistani male gangs behind such crimes.

Child sexual abuse is a significant but preventable adverse childhood experience and is a grave public health issue. This can mean someone (an adult or child) intentionally wants to hurt another child.

The new mandatory England's reporting law will now go after criminals who hold cultural attitudes that are incompatible with British values, said the senior Indian-origin Cabinet minister to media outlets. Due to political correctness and the fear of being called racists, the problem has never been brought to the forefront or challenged.

While talking to BBC, Braverman said, 'The perpetrators are groups of men, almost all British Pakistani, who hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values. They have been left unchallenged both within their communities and by wider society, despite their activities being an open secret,' she said and added that there has been a 'wilful turning of a blind eye, a failure to act and that silence has enabled this abuse'.

The new policy will be clear on one primary thing anyone who is associated with or working with vulnerable groups and children in a safeguarding role such as teachers and social workers and will not be able to get away with inaction.

In an interview with Sky News, she said, we have witnessed that sometimes, vulnerable, white English girls in care in difficult circumstances are being 'pursued and raped and drugged and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani, men who've worked in child abuse rings or networks.' And organisations and state agencies, be it a teacher, police or social worker turn a blind eye to these signs of abuse due to political correctness and the fear of being called bigots and racists.

This move has been welcomed by children's charities which will compel people to take action legally while dealing with child abuse. The details of this measure have been laid out by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday where a task force will go after vile child abusers.

Who Is Suella Braverman? Know About Her Early Life, Education, and Political Career And Achievements

• Braverman was born on 3 April 2980 to Uma (mother) and Christie Fernandes (father). Her mother belonged to a Hindu Tamil family in Mauritius and then her mother migrated to the UK. Her father is from Goa and came from Kenya in the 1960s.
• It is a mother of two daughters.
• Suella Braverman went to the Heathfield School in London and studied Law at Queens' College, Cambridge. She pursued her Masters in Law from Pantheon-Sorbonne and then became qualified as New York Attorney.
• It was in 2005 when Braverman started her political career and contested for the general election from Leicester East and finished in the second position.
• In May 2015, she won an election to become the Conservative MP for Fareham. She was re-elected in 2017 and 2019 for this position.
• From January 2018 to November 2018, she served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
• She also served as the Secretary of State in the former Parliamentary Department for Exiting Britain from the European Union in 2018.
• From 13 February 2020 to 6 September 2022, as a Britain's Conservative Party member, she served as Attorney General.
• On 25 October 2022, She was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department. She previously held the same role between 6 September 2022 and 19 October 2022.
• She is also an active member of the Triratna Buddhist Community as she took her oath in the office of Parliament on the 'Dhammadpada'.