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Fouzia Saeed is a social activist, gender expert, trainer/facilitator, development manager, folk culture promoter, television commentator and author. She is the author of two well regarded books. The first〔Taboo Review Dawn http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/030216/books6.htm〕〔Taboo interview Sikh Spectrum http://www.sikhspectrum.com/012003/fouzia.htm〕〔"Puneites are a very discerning audience", Richa Bansal, The Times of India,Pune, Times City, 26 May 2007〕 is an ethnographic look at prostitution in Pakistan, TABOO!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light District (Oxford University Press(), Karachi, 2001, 2nd edition 2011). The second, Working with Sharks: Countering Sexual Harassment in our Lives(Sanj, Pakistan, 2011), is an autobiographical expose on sexual harassment in the United Nations and the revenge meted out by the UN management she and 10 other women faced for making their case.〔http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/09/new-culture-for-women.html, http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta2/tft/article.php?issue=20120113&page=9, http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2012-weekly/nos-15-01-2012/lit.htm#1,〕 Saeed is well known in the activist circles of Pakistan's social movement,〔"Is ''Taboo'' taboo?" by Shabnam Nasir, Books and Authors, DAWN, 16 February 2003〕〔"Breaking Taboos" memoires by Kamil Ali Rextin in The Friday Times, 9–16 October 2009.〕 having worked for decades on women's issues,〔Speech on Women's Day 2007 http://gender.developmentgateway.org/Highlight.10973+M57aaec908a2.0.html〕 especially those linked to violence against women, prostitution,〔Men and sexuality http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C17%5Cstory_17-6-2006_pg3_3〕 women in the entertainment business, women’s mobility and sexual harassment. Her work on violence against women spans over 20 years and includes founding Bedari, the first women’s crisis center in Pakistan in 1991. For the past several years, she has been working to reduce the level of sexual harassment〔AASHA http://www.aasha.org.pk〕 and debt bondage〔Bonded labor conference http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=178522〕 in the country and has most recently focused her attention on the ways terrorists establish themselves in fragile communities.〔Dispelling the myths about Taliban http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/introducing-amankaar-tehrik-peace-movement-in-pakistan〕〔"Force back the Taliban and save the people" http://www.defence.pk/forums/strategic-geopolitical-issues/25847-precarious-position.html〕〔"not a futile effort" http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HTNext&id=5872ff08-f2ce-4be8-89c0-b32123693a0e&ParentID=642c678b-913e-4891-be1e-ec9a2533a741&Headline=Battle+for+Pakistan%3a+Is+it+for+real%3f〕 She organised a large gathering of citizens at the National Library on 23 June 2009 to map out a strategy for countering talibanisation in Pakistan 〔Taliban leadership must be eliminated: experts http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=184553〕〔Economic, social reforms to root out terrorism http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/13+economic+social+reforms+to+root+out+terrorism-za-09〕 and has supported a constitutional amendment establishing local government as a third tier of the state administration.〔Are we for a democracy? http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/09/are-we-for-a-democracy/〕 On 10 March 2009, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, named Saeed to a three-year term as one of the 15 members of the National Commission on the Status of Women.〔Official GoP list of NCSW membership http://www.ncsw.gov.pk/members.php〕〔NCSW Press Announcement http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C03%5C10%5Cstory_10-3-2009_pg7_46〕 Subsequently, she was appointed as the Chair of the Sexual Harassment Legislation Implementation Watch Committee from May 2010 to May 2012. The government of Japan named Saeed as one of seven Asian Leadership Fellows for 2010. She attended the Fellowship program in Tokyo from September to November 2010 〔ALFP http://www.i-house.or.jp/en/ProgramActivities/alfp/index.htm〕 and gave lectures at numerous Japanese universities〔http://www.ajwrc.org/eng/modules/bulletin/index.php?page=article&storyid=108〕 and wrote about her experiences on her return.〔Saeed, Fouzia. "Some Like it Raw", ''The Express Tribune Magazine'', 16–22 January 2011, p. 34.〕 Between September 2012 and February 2015, Saeed was a Fellow at the US National Endowment for Democracy (DC), Draper-Hills Fellow at Stanford University (California), Visiting Fellow at George Mason University (Virginia) and Pakistan Scholar at the Wilson Center for Scholars (DC) under the Smithsonian Institution. Saeed was awarded the 2012 Battle of Crete Award by the Oxi Day Foundation for 'courageous action for freedom and democracy' based on her decade-long struggle for the criminalisation of sexual harassment in Pakistan.〔http://www.oxidayfoundation.org/recipient-of-the-2012-battle-of-crete-award-announced/〕 Saeed says of herself: "I want to be judged by my abilities, my struggles and my achievements and not labeled or stereotyped by my gender, my economic background, my nationality or my beliefs." ==Personal profile== Saeed was born on 3 June 1959, in Lahore, Pakistan. She received most of her schooling and early college education in Peshawar, Pakistan where she graduated from the University of Peshawar with a BS in Home Economics as the University Gold Medalist for Academic Excellence in 1979. As a result of her academic achievements, she received a Quaid-e-Azam Overseas Educational Award and spent 8 years at the University of Minnesota, where she earned an MS in Design and a Doctorate in Education. She received additional funding from the (Ethel L. Parker International Fellowship Award ) of the (American Home Economics Association ) for her doctoral research. Saeed returned to her native land immediately after completing her degrees, but has returned to Minneapolis on several occasions as a visiting lecturer and to receive a Distinguished International Alumni Award〔Distinguished International Alumni Award http://www.alumni.umn.edu/Voices__Taking_on_Taboos.html〕 in 1998 and the International Leadership Award 〔International Leadership Award http://www.international.umn.edu/awards/leader/2008/saeed.php〕〔http://www.opfblog.com/5160/islamabad-dr-fouzia-saeed-gets-distinguished-leadership-award-from-the-university-of-minnesota/〕 in 2008, both presented by the University of Minnesota in recognition of her contributions to the field of education and the women’s movement in Pakistan. She presently serves as the Director of (Mehergarh: A Center for Learning ) where she heads its programs on youth, gender and human rights. She lives in Islamabad with her husband, Paul Lundberg, whom she met in 1995 when they were both working in the United Nations in Pakistan. They have also lived together in Manila and Cairo. She is one of the very few Pakistani women of her generation who has learned how to SCUBA dive and has dived in the Bahamas, the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, Fiji, and various islands of the Philippines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fouzia Saeed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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