Ms. Farah Naqvi, Member NAC
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Farah Naqvi is a writer and activist working on public policy and the rights of the most marginalized from both a development and justice perspective. She works on minority rights, (in particular, on issues related to the Muslim minority), Dalit rights, gender issues, and women’s education. Farah Naqvi is one of the founders of Nirantar (a Delhi-based NGO working on gender & education), a Board Member of Oxfam India and on the Board of PAHAL (a rural women’s media collective based in Bundelkhand which brings out Khabar Lahariya, the newspaper that won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2004). Her 2008 book, Waves in the Hinterland, explores connections between rural women, education, rural media, democracy and citizenship.
She has worked, campaigned and written on issues of communalism, and on seeking justice for victims & survivors of communal violence, with special focus on the issue of sexual violence in communal conflict. She was Member, Planning Commission Steering Committee (Women and Child), Working Group (Minority Affairs) and Working Group (Youth Affairs & Adolescents) for the 11th five-year plan, and is Member, Steering Committee on the Empowerment of Minorities for the 12th five-year plan.
Farah Naqvi has a post-graduate degree in Social Anthropology and Education from Columbia University in New York, USA.