While the rest of the world may know her as the co-founder of the Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF), we always knew her as one of the core women and the original founders of the International Solidarity Network Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Faizun Zackariya has been at the forefront of the struggle...
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Najia Haneefi
Najia Haneefi is a dedicated outspoken feminist activist and fearless radio journalist with extensive experience in leading campaigns and protests for women’s civil and political rights, for which received, the UK International Service Human Rights Award for the Defence of the Human Rights (2007). Also successfully managed, fundraised and coordinated rights-based and women’s empowerment programs...
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Mona Tajali
Dr. Mona Tajali has been a long-term collaborator with the research wing of the transnational feminist solidarity network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and as of 2019, serves as member of their executive board. Her first book, Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women, co-authored with Homa Hoodfar and published by WLUML, has been...
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Homa Hoodfar
Homa Hoodfar is Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Concordia University, Montreal. Describing herself as an academic in the service of civil society, Professor Hoodfar has also been actively involved in Research and Publication Division of Women Living Under Muslim Laws Network’s whose mission has been to promote gender equality and plural democracy, since 1980s. Her ...
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Sana Zada
Sana Zada received her a bachelor’s degree in English, from Salahaddin University, Iraq. she is a woman activist working in the war and conflict zones in Iraq-Kurdistan Regional Government (Iraq-KRG) since 2014.. She has worked in the capacity of a project manager in several projects focusing on empowering women and girls in internally Displaced People...
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Fahima Hashim
Fahima Hashim was the Director of Salmmah Women’s Resource Center in Khartoum, Sudan. One of Fahima’s greatest characteristics is that she challenges all taboos for the greater cause of human rights and specifically equal rights of women. Fahima confronts all of the sexist, racist, and anti-human rights laws in Sudan. She has worked with WLUML...
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Setenay Mutlu Adisonmez
Setenay Mutlu Adisönmez is a London based women’s rights advocate who practices in UK immigration policy and law. She has previously worked as a junior researcher and campaigner with several human rights and anti-poverty organisations including Amnesty International and Oxfam in Turkey, Scandinavia and the UK. In 2018, Setenay started work as an intern with...
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Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh has been a long time WLUML networker who has played an important role in Iran since the 1990s. She had is an active member of the Stop Stoning to Death Campaign and the Iranian Women’s Charter. She was the director of the Non-Governmental Organisation Training Centre (NGOTC) and while in exile (since 20010)...
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Isabel Marler
Isabel Marler is the Communications Coordinator of the Challenging Fundamentalisms programme at the Associate for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), a position which involves online communications and outreach, and research and knowledge-production for advocacy and capacity-building purposes. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Bristol and a Master’s degree in Gender...
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Haddy Jatou Jonga
Haddy Jatou Jonga is a feminist activist focusing on the promotion of the wellbeing of women and children. She currently hosts a TV show on the Gambia’s National broadcaster centered on youth development. She currently spearheads the mentorship team of Think Young Women, a young women-led non-profit organization. Through this mentorship program that provides d...