HUMANITARIAN HUMA KIRMANI

HUMA KIRMANI

Author, TEDx speaker and Member of Amnesty International

My Story.

I am from Pakistan, an author, a TEDx speaker and member of Amnesty International. I am the Peace Ambassador of INSPAD, the international think tank. I have been awarded lifetime membership of Women Economic Forum. A Global Goodwill Ambassador and affiliated to Arado and Lyari Girls Cafe. I am an Honorary member of United Nations of Pakistan. Recently, I was awarded Books for Peace Award 2020, announced in Rome UNESCO. I represent Pakistan amongst writers from all over the world.

I advocate human rights and work for women empowerment. I participated in the awareness campaign of Alight Pakistan against Covid19. I was nominated as an author for Books for Peace 2020, Italy and She Awards, Dubai by Ladyz Fusion. I was a quiet child who remained in her own imaginative world, drew creativity from my imaginative featured characters, remained dormant till I were called by my elders. The world was a labyrinth for my imagination and I like Goldilocks never wandered in the reality of life but time taught me how to live mirthfully with the dwarfs like Snow-white and the dwarfs were rejection , unwelcomed and distortion in achieving my goals and few dreams never turned into realities.

My fairyland remained alive till the time when my orb witnessed the great revolution in Iran then the former Soviet Union ‘s oppression in Afghanistan which initiated a war which seemed to have no end. Afghanistan is Pakistan’s neighbour, the amber of war flames burnt the borders of Pakistan, later the entire state was engulfed in the fire of terrorism. I was in school when Afghan war started, I behold influx of Afghan refugees and their misery. I wrote my first novel on Afghan war and Afghan refugees’ crisis. The narrator of my book is a young Afghan girl who migrated from Kandahar to the refugee’s camp in Peshawar then to Karachi as in search of her younger brother.

Life moved on, then the agony of Syria, Iraq and Libya made me write another book which was named as, ‘By the Rivers of Babylon.’ My empathetic horizon widened more by the time when I raised my voice against the offence with the women in rural areas of Pakistan. I started a petition against this dilemma in the name of honour killings. I speak and write for women ‘s education and empowerment and their rights. I trained teachers of underprivileged areas to make them aware the newest curriculum with defined aims and objectives. I am affiliated with two NGO of Lyari an underprivileged area of my city Karachi. I am the member of Amnesty international and honorary member of United Nations of Pakistan, Palestine foundation Pakistan.

I write about the misery of Palestinian and vociferate for their rights. The incessant conflagration of Kashmir and deafening silence of the world is outrageous. I started a petition against the offence which is going on in Jammu and Kashmir. I had written a book about the agony of Kashmir as. ‘ A Tale of Two Flags.’