Speaker: Gulalai Ismail (Founder, Aware Girls)
Venue: Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, EH1 2JL
Date: Tuesday 13th September
Time: 6pm
An opportunity to hear from acclaimed human rights
and peace activist Gulalai Ismail about her attempts to tackle extremism
and empower women in Pakistan. Gulalai Ismail with her sister, Saba,
founded the organisation ‘Aware Girls’ in Pakistan when she was just 16
years old in an effort to empower women in regions influenced by the
Taliban. Soon they began to build a network of peace activists across
the region to tackle the rise of extremism in many poor rural
communities. Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala participated in one of
Aware Girls’ early training programmes. Her work is increasingly
recognised internationally, and she is in the UK to share her
experiences.
Last year, with the support of international NGO Peace Direct, Gulalai
and her team helped over 1,300 young people in Pakistan to challenge
extremism. Despite threats against her own life, Gulalai next plans to
expand her work into neighbouring Afghanistan. A winner of the 2009
Youth Action Net Fellowship, the 2014 International Humanist Award and
the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Award for Asia, Gulalai was named as one of
Foreign Policy’s Global Thinkers in 2013 and has been featured by the
BBC, Guardian, Huffington Post and more.
Free to attend but places need to be reserved via
http://tackling-extremism-pakistan.eventbrite.co.uk
Contact for Booking: info@peacedirect.org
