Английская Википедия:Hilda Saeed

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Шаблон:Infobox person Hilda Saeed (born 1936) is a Pakistani activist and freelance journalist. She is chair of Shirkat Gah (Women's Resource Center) and a founding member of the Women's Action Forum (WAF) in Pakistan and of the Pakistan Reproductive Health Network.[1][2][3][4]

Activities

Saeed is a Christian married to a Muslim.[2] Saeed began her career by teaching at an undergraduate university for eighteen years.[2] She worked as a medical researcher, forensic serologist, and also as a journalist.[2][4][5] Saeed helped women and members of minority communities through legal Proceedings.[2][6] Saeed's only daughter is also an active feminist.[2]

Saeed became a women's rights activist in 1978, joining the Shirkat Gah (Women's Resource Center) and becoming its chair. She was a founding member of the Women's Action Forum,[2][7][6][8] and of the Pakistan Reproductive Health Network, which raised issues related to sexual rights. Saeed has represented Pakistan in many international forums.[8]

She was a member of HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights & Accountability), an international group of women health activists who produced a set of Action Sheets "to ensure implementation of the Programme of Action produced by the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994".][9]

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