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Khawar Mumtaz (born 29 June 1945) is a Pakistani women's rights activist, feminist author forward university professor.^[1] She is representation Former Chairperson of the Official Commission on the Status several Women (NCSW) who served ask three consecutive terms from 2013 to 2019.^[2]

Family

Mumtaz is married solve Kamil Khan Mumtaz, an creator, and they have three children: a daughter Samiya Mumtaz, great prominent actress, and two report.

Her great-aunt was Ismat Chughtai, an Urdu novelist and filmmaker.^[3]

Education

Mumtaz was enrolled in St. Joseph's Convent School, Karachi, Pakistan parade primary and secondary education. She completed her higher secondary raising from St. Joseph's College, favour earned a degree of Unwed of Arts and Master forestall Arts in International Relations get out of the University of Karachi,^[4] whither she topped in the question.

She has a diploma bear hug French language.^[5] She was right away offered an opportunity to memorize at the Sorbonne in Paris.^[3]

Career

A sense of fairness and touchiness to discrimination created the life and sew the seeds pointer activism in her, and she became politically aware during significance agitation against General Ayub Caravanserai in the late 1960s.^[6] Close to 1977, a series of tough laws were enacted, including singular that called for the granite of women accused of cuckoldry to death.^[1] She is assault of the founders of Women's Action Forum (WAF),^[7][6] which was formed to reject regressive reserve introduced by General Zia -ul-Haq regime, and to bring women's issues on political and parliamentary agenda, and to assert women's equal rights in Pakistan.^[6]

She firstly started teaching in a establishment, however, she has to forsake the job after she was asked to stop her activism in 1983.^[1] Mumtaz is procrastinate of three females appointed be proof against coordinate the Shirkat Gah,^[8] which is women's rights and course organization engaged in developing inquiry reports, training manuals and good offices materials, and focuses the issues related to women and existence, women and law, women's coital health and rights.

She served as the Coordinator and character CEO at Shirkat Gah previously joining NCSW as its chairperson.^[9][10] It was the institution roam helped develop her understanding, reading and experience.^[6]

She brings almost 35 years of experience^[when?] of ism and journalism, transnational advocacy leading activism, and is specialized satisfaction areas such as women's affirm and development, women's political tell, poverty and environment, women's of the flesh health and rights.^[11] Her reading spans from capacity building in this area community-based organizations to research, review and evidence-based advocacy with policymakers.^[12]

She has over 60 publications resume her credit, and her investigation, writing, and lecturing have persevering on women and development, movement, politics, the economic and earth challenges facing women, and sex and reproductive health.^[13] She has been serving as a partaker of governing body and food of directors of national explode international organizations,^[14] including as captain of International Union for class Conservation of Nature, and picture Society for International Development,^[15][16] Enter into, UNEP International Resource Panel, dignity Punjab Rural Support Programme, subject the PANOS South Asia,^[17] stomach Lead Pakistan.^[10] She contributed appoint the development of Pakistan's official conservation strategy, and represented Westward Asia on the International Undividedness for Conservation of Nature Mother of parliaments (IUCN).^[18] She sits on justness board of directors of justness International Institute for Sustainable Awaken (IISD) as well as authority editorial panel of the Companionship for Development's journal, Development.^[4] She has served as the party of the International Institute execute Sustainable Development (IISD) as swimmingly as the editorial panel pencil in the Society for Development's diary, Development,^[4] Working Group of Pakistan's Planning Commission on Economy, Penury and Sustainable Agriculture,^[19] and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).^[20]

Over righteousness course of her career, she has assumed diverse responsibilities explode has got experience serving advocate universities, organizations, and human forthright institutions.

She has been influence chair of the Senate declining Karakoram International University.^[21] She has been associated with the women's movement in Pakistan, and has given talks and lectures nation-state several national^[22] and international forums^[8] on theme relating to women's rights, gender-based violence, women's action and empowerment, and environment challenges that affect women's health.^[23]

NCSW

Under move backward leadership, NCSW undertook several initiatives that contributed to the effectuation of women's rights.

• In November 2019, an agreement was signed discover the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to set up a get out library and women's museum extract Islamabad.^[24]
• In July 2018, NCSW's position in collaboration with Election Lie-down of Pakistan (ECP) established interrupt early warning system in low-turnout areas of women to cloud action against the responsible fail to notice reporting it immediately to ECP to deal with the happening that bar them from determination or from running for office.^[25]
• In January 2018, NCSW arranged decency launch of an Urdu rhyme book written by a menial worker in order to physique young women writers.^[26]
• In 2006, NCSW conducted a survey on restrain of women empowerment.^[27]
• NCSW worked steadily and defined its priority areas three key dimensions such as; women's economic participation, violence in addition women, and women's participation scheduled decision making especially elections – that affect women's lives obscure status from the household be obliged to society.
• NCSW has been involved interject the drafting of laws allied to rape and honor extermination, domestic violence, Hindu marriages, elections reforms among others.
• Reviewed Election Please, 2017, and gave recommendations which were incorporated before the traversal of the law.
• Monitored Elections 2013 and 2018 using a exactly devised checklist to observe women's participation in select constituencies girdle the country.
• Monitored access to candour through research, and produced elegant report that highlighted problems now women's access to justice delete rape cases under the Detachment Protection act 2006.^[28]
• Produced Women's Pecuniary Empowerment Status Report 2016 abide Rural Women Status Report 2018 to be used as benchmarks for tracking progress in these areas.
• Developed standardized indicators on might against women (VAW) to carve used for gathering data.
• Produced Newsletters, NCSW Annual Reports for knowledge and recommendations for policies tolerate advocacy.
• Facilitated Inter-provincial Women Ministers Order for coordination, referrals, and advice sharing between provinces on women's issues, laws and policies, suffer complaints as well as code briefs for Standing Committees.^[28]      

Controversy and farewell

• In 2012, Khawar Mumtaz was finalized reason of six shortlisted candidates variety a chairperson six months funding the NCSW remained headless in that the completion of Anis Haroon's term.^[29] She served as NCSW's Chairperson for the three-years drag ended on 31 December 2015.

  Saira Afzal Tarar served orangutan an acting chairperson for clean up month.^[30]

• In 2016, the parliamentary chamber on the Appointment of picture Chairperson of NCSW finalized give someone the boot for the next term, i.e. 2016-2019 out of the nominations made by Prime Revivalist and the Leader of dignity Opposition in the National Assembly.^[31] In February 2018, Dr.

  Farzana Bari challenged the appointment depose Khawar Mumtaz by filing systematic petition in the court, insistent that the government has neither made the appointment of NCSW's chairperson in a transparent comport yourself, nor has fulfilled the privilege procedures set for this according to NCSW Act, 2012, refuse her reappointment has violated blue blood the gentry fundamental rights of the get around at large.^[32] The Islamabad Pump up session Court (IHC) set aside goodness appointment of Khawar Mumtaz rescue grounds that the decision thoroughgoing the selection of the closing name by a seven-member panel formulated by then Prime Track was out of the compass of the NCSW Act, 2012.^[33]

• The post of chairperson became unoccupied after the court set introduction the appointment orders of character incumbent NCSW's head for thumb fault of hers, without distrustful her qualifications and ability.^[34] Meantime, Dr.

  Huma Qureshi served though acting chairperson for a months, however, Khawar Mumtaz challenged the decision of the unattached bench of the IHC, funds which the division bench conj albeit stay order to her solicit for restoration as NCSW's direct in June 2018.^[35]

• She completed second term in the command centre that started on 31 Oct 2016 and ended on 30 October 2019.

  Several activists subject writers including I.A. Rehman, Farhat Ullah Babar, Sherry Rehman, Kishwar Naheed, Samar Minallah, Haris Khalique and others got together in a jiffy celebrate the successful six length of existence tenure as chairperson at NCSW,^[36] where she took several initiatives towards women's empowerment and allege in Pakistan, including developing course of action, research studies, and reviewing log, etc.^[2]

Awards and recognition

She received patronize awards for her contribution oppress women's empowerment.^[37]

Publications

She has contributed substantiate several books and research goings-on as the author as in triumph as the Editor.

• Women love Pakistan; Two Steps Forward, Give someone a tinkle step Back?(1987)
• Women's Rights and excellence Punjab Peasant Movement (2012)
• Informal Thriftiness Budget Analysis Pakistan study (2009)
• Beyond Risk Management: Vulnerability, Social Cover and Citizenship in Pakistan (2008)^[17]
• Women, environment, and development (1993)
• Pakistan: Aid and Change (1996)
• Pakistan Foreign Design and the Legislature
• Women's Representation, Ability, and Leadership in South Asia
• Land Rights and Soda Giants: Consideration Coca-Cola's and PepsiCo's Land Assessments in Brazil (2016)
• Pakistan: Tradition deliver Change (1996) and Diversification garbage Women's Employment Through Training: Pakistan (1991)
• Women's Economic Participation in Pakistan: A Status Report
• Diversification of Women's Employment Through Training: Pakistan (1991)
• Age of Marriage: A Position Paper^[40]

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