Mary Akrami

Mary Akrami in 2012

Mary Akrami is the director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center.[1] She represented Afghan civil society at the 2001 Bonn Conference.[2] In 2003 the Afghan Women Skills Development Center opened the first women’s shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan.[3][2] The shelter provides legal advice, literacy classes, psychological counseling, and basic skills training to women who need them.[1] Akrami is on call 24 hours a day at the shelter, and under her leadership some of the women there have denounced their abusers publicly and filed court cases against them, something almost unheard of before.[4] She has faced threats for her work.[1]

She received a 2007 International Women of Courage Award[1] and was named in the BBC 100 Women 2016 list as one of the year's most inspirational and influential women.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Honorees
  2. 1 2 What's an American lawyer doing in Afghanistan? - CSMonitor.com
  3. ↑ Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection, NYTimes, Retrieved 14 July 2016
  4. ↑ AWIU » 2007 WOC – Mary Akrami Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". Retrieved 21 November 2016. Ms. Akrami is a Columbia of New York University’s Human Rights Advocacy Fellowship in New York, United States. She is enjoying the membership of South Asian for Human Rights (SAHR) since 2013. She is the pioneer member of Frontline Defenders in Afghanistan Under her leadership for reintegration of women survivors of violence (reside in AWSDC run shelter) through economic empowerment, a number of shelter residents are trained in hotel management and a restaurant is opened for them. This is the first restaurant in the history of Afghanistan which is owned and run by women. She was an active member of The Committee to draft and review women friendly laws which is another valuable contribution to protect women’ human rights through provision of a legal framework. Mary Akrami has been selected as member of the Selection Committee of Election Commission of Afghanistan. This is an honor for her to be part of a high profile and important portfolio. Recently she is given the responsibility to work as member of High Peace Council of Afghanistan.
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