Zakia Soman

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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]

Life[]

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

Activism[]

Zakia 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 Zakia the Outstanding Women Achiever's Award.^[5] She has also featured in BBC's 100 Fearless Women in November 2015.^[6]

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