Zakia Soman

The Zakia Soman is a women's rights activist from India and one of the founding members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a membership based human rights movement.[1]

Zakia Soman

Lifestyle

Soman is from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in India. She worked as a university professor of Business Communication in English at the University of Gujarat.[2]

Activism

Soman is an advocate of the rights of Muslim women.[3] She has worked and written extensively on issues of peace and justice, secularism, human rights, and minority rights. She also set-up the Peace and Human Security theme in ActionAid.

She is a member of South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE). She used to be a university professor in Gujarat before she quit her job and started working for minority rights. She is a founder of Centre for Peace Studies, which engages in knowledge activism for peace and tolerance.[4]

Recognition

In 2014, National Commission for Women awarded Soman the Outstanding Women Achiever's Award.[5] She has also featured in BBC's 100 Fearless Women in November 2015.[6]

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.