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Qamar Naseem: The Pakistani Feminist

From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* I first heard of the Pakistani women’s rights activist, Qamar Naseem, via BBC’s *Outlook *program, which interviewed him in July this year. A recipient of the “No Peace Without Justice Human Rights Award” (this year) and part of a human rights (primarily women’s rights) non-profit, Blue Veins, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Naseem speaks with *The Diplomat *about working with communities at the grass-roots level, threats faced, and the trouble with human rights activism in Pakistan today. *How did Blue Veins come into being?* I co-founded Blue Veins in 1999. At the time the members of our team were working in different organizations but somehow we all came together as people who had loved ones affected by breast cancer. At the time we thought there was a severe lackpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

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