Khalida Ghous

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Khalida Ghous (Urdu: خالدہ غوث) is a Pakistani scholar of International Relations and human rights and an activist. She was the first person to be awarded a PhD in human rights in Pakistan.[1]

She is currently the managing director of the Social Policy and Development Center, a research institute based in Karachi, Pakistan.[2]

Education

Ghaus attended the University of Karachi and holds an MA and a PhD in international relations. She completed her PhD under the supervision of jurist Khalid M. Ishaq on the institutionalization of Human Rights with particular reference to the European Court of Human Rights.[3]

Career

Ghaus served as chairperson of the Department of International Relations at the University of Karachi from September 2003 to September 2006. She holds the position of Director of the Centre of Excellence for Women's Studies at the University of Karachi and an Honorary Director of both the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Pakistani Center for Democracy Studies. She has been involved in policy-making on gender-related issues with both the Federal and Provincial governments. Ghaus is a member of several professional bodies and a nominee of the Sindh Government on the monitoring committee constituted on Women Empowerment. She also teaches at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. Her areas of interest include human rights, the Far East, and Pakistan's foreign policy.[1]

In 2006, Ghaus was one of eighteen people who sent an open letter to President Pervez Musharraf, calling for him to resign as either president or as Chief of Army Staff.[2]

She has been a delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and was invited by the European Union to deliver a talk in Brussels. Ghaus is involved in Pakistan-India back-channel diplomacy as an active member of the India-Pakistan Neemrana initiative.[3]

She is the author of the book on Women's Rights in Islam and co-editor of Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Problems and Prospects.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Other notable positions include:

  • Managing director, Social Policy and Development Center, Karachi.
  • Professor and ex-chairman, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi.
  • Ex-Director, Center of Excellence for Women's Studies, University of Karachi.
  • Ex-Editor, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Karachi.
  • Honorary Director, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
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Honors and fellowships

  • Delegate in the General Assembly of World University Service in Lima, Peru, 1988.
  • Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Fellowship, July 1992.
  • Attended the Salzburg Seminar on Transnational Law and Human Rights, 12–24 July 1992, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Visited the United States under the International Visitor's Programme on Conflict Resolution Tensions in South Asia. 10 Oct.– 8 November 1992.
  • Represented the Asia-Pacific Region in the International World University Service Delegation at the 50th and 51st Sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 20–27 February 1994 and February 1995, Geneva.
  • Asia Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C. 1 June–30 July 1999.

Books

  • Ghaus, Khalida, 2006. Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia and Within Pakistan, New York: Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA)[4]
  • Ghaus, Khalida, 2002. Female home-based workers: the silent workforce, Karachi: Centre of Excellence for Women Studies, University of Karachi.
  • Ahmed, M. and Ghaus, K., (ed.), 1999 Pakistan: Prospects and Perspectives, Karachi: Royal Book Company [5]

References

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Sources and external links

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