Fouzia Saeed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fouzia Saeed
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Jun 3, 1959(1959-06-03)
Age	65
Birthplace	Lahore
Country	Pakistan
Birth City	Punjab
Horoscope	Gemini

Fouzia Saeed Biography

Fouzia Saeed is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on June 3, 1959 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Saeed is born the 3rd of June, 1959 at Lahore, Pakistan. She attended the bulk of her education and university education at Peshawar, Pakistan where she graduated from the University of Peshawar with a BS in Home Economics as the Silver Medalist of Academic Excellence, in the year 1979. Due to her academic accomplishments she was awarded the Quaid-e -Azam Overseas Educational Award . She then spent eight months studying at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with the MS in Design as well as Doctorate in Education. Additionally, she was awarded the Ethel L. Parker International Fellowship Award of the American Home Economics Association for her doctoral work. Saeed went back to her home country immediately following the completion of her studies, however she has been back to Minneapolis numerous times as a visiting lecturer as well as to be awarded a Distinguished International Alumni Award in 1998 as well as the International Leadership Award in 2008 and 2008, both given in 2008 by the University of Minnesota in recognition of her contribution to educational research as well as the women’s movements in Pakistan.

After her return to Pakistan in 1987, she joined the Women’s Action Forum. She was part of a taskforce within its Islamabad chapter, which was dubbed the Committee for Violence Against Women. The committee analyzed elements that contributed to the violence continue and suggested initiatives within the community to tackle the issues. To further discuss the issue, she and other members of the task force held workshops to discuss the issue.

Saeed was a Founding Member and Executive Director of, Bedari, a community organisation focused on women’s issues, specifically related to violence. The organisation was founded in 1992 by Saeed and Ambreen Ahmad. At that time others among the core members who formed the first executive body included Sara Tirmazi, Shazreh Husain and Roshaneh Zafar. Bedari became the first Crisis Center in Pakistan that dealt with women experiencing violence.

She lives in Sri Lanka 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 Pakistan, the Bahamas, the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, Fiji, and various islands of the Philippines.

Saeed has been involved in the electronic medium since. In 1977, she was one of the first female news announcers for Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) located in Peshawar. She was a student at the college in the year 1977. After finishing their studies at the US after which she returned back to Pakistan at the end of 1987 began her involvement with PTV once more. It was through directing programs for PTV as well as other channels on television periodically.

Fouzia Saeed Net Worth

Fouzia Saeed is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fouzia Saeed 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fouzia Saeed (born 3 June 1959) is an activist in the field of social justice as well as a gender expert, trainer/ facilitator and development manager, as well as a folk culture promoter, TV commentator, and author. Her books include two highly known books. The first is an ethnographic examination of the world of prostitution Pakistan, TABOO! The Unspoken Culture of a Red Light District. Her next novel, Working with Sharks: Fighting sexual Harassment in our lives (Sanj, Pakistan, 2011) It was an autobiographical account of sexual harassment at the United Nations and the revenge that the UN management that she along with 10 other women were subjected to in presenting their case.

Although she had been involved on gender-related issues since the late 1970s, her focus was heightened to the issue of sexual harassment when she along with ten other women discovered themselves caught in a symbiotic sexual harassment situation by a number of their managers while she worked in an organization that was part of the UN in Pakistan. While they were highly competent, respected and dedicated to their professions and their careers, they were required to take on the responsibility of reporting jointly their supervisor to the UN headquarters located in New York. The two women fought the case together, despite repeated attempt by UN administration in Islamabad to split them and denigrate their professionalism and ultimately prevailed after two years of struggle. When the perpetrator was exiled from the UN the case was made well-known and led to numerous policy changes to the working environment of the whole UN system. But, as we revealed in May 2009 this particular issue is one of the most challenging for the leaders of this massive international organization to tackle. This incident has been thoroughly described by Dr. Saeed’s book Working with Sharks: Countering Sexual Harassment in our lives. The book’s publication was greeted with enthusiasm by the entire Pakistani society. as well as internationally. The book comes with its own page on Facebook. The initial reviews for this book have been lauding her courage and questioned how a event could happen when the top management of an internationally recognized development agency firmly supporting the culprit.

Fouzia Saeed has been working throughout her career on women’s issues in the field of folklore, development and social change. Her career started as a Deputy Director Research at the Pakistan National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) where she developed and supervised a folklore research program and contributed to improvement of the folklore archives and the library of the Institute. She conducted research on various aspects of folklore, through the Institute and on her own. Her first research was on women in folk theatre in 1991. Recently, Lok Virsa requested her to update and enhance the book, which they published in 2011 as ‘Forgotten Faces: Daring Women of the Pakistani Folk Theatre’. In the book, she chronicled the life of Bali Jatti, the first women to own a travelling stage theatre in Punjab, as a vehicle to capture the tradition of Punjabi folk theatre through the eyes of the female performers whose careers are spent in front of audiences of men who keep their wives hidden at home. The first review of the book,(Documenting Arts by Sarwat Ali) appreciated her ability to present these stage stars as real women who faced more than their share of troubles in their lives. She has also done research on other entertainment forms like folk circus, folk dances and folk natak (drama), and has mostly focused on women’s experiences in each of them.

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Her book, Taboo: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light District, is the first book-length ethnography that captures the fading traditional systems of prostitution in Pakistan, with their close relationships with classical music and dance, as they are steadily replaced by the more exploitative modern brothel systems. The culture of the prostitutes serves as reverse-image of mainstream Pakistani society with their female heads-of-household and male family members who serve no economic purpose. Saeed used this culture as a mirror for Pakistanis to assess their own gender relations. For this reason, the book became a cult classic among young English-speaking Pakistanis. The book was published in English and Urdu by Oxford University Press and has been translated into Hindi and Marathi by nonprofit groups in India. A Japanese translation was published by Commons in October 2010.

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Fouzia Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Pakistan. Fouzia Saeed celebrates birthday on June 3 of every year.

In 2000, Saeed was instrumental in forming a network called AASHA [6] (An Alliance Against Sexual Harassment) in Pakistan. Six organisations form the core membership of AASHA. They, along with several hundred individuals and organisations serve as partners and friends of AASHA. In 2002, AASHA, together with the Government, developed a Code of Conduct on gender relations at the workplace that was initially adopted voluntarily by over 130 companies in Pakistan. From 2002 onwards, AASHA continued to collaborate with the Government to press for the passage of a law requiring all public and private organisations to adopt and implement the Code. On November 2009 an amendment to the Pakistan Penal Code was passed by the Pakistan National Assembly explicitly making sexual harassment a cognisable offence anywhere in the country. This was ratified by the Senate on 20 January 2010 and signed into law with immediate effect by President Zardari on 29 January 2010. On 21 January 2010, the National Assembly approved a second bill requiring all organisations in Pakistan to adopt and implement the Code of Conduct. After lengthy debate, this bill was also passed by the Senate on 25 February and signed into law by the President on 9 March 2010. On 10 May 2010, Saeed was named by the NCSW to head the Government’s Implementation Watch Committee, which will facilitate and monitor the progress of adoption of the sexual harassment legislation.