Ethnicity Sindhi Website marvisirmed.com Name Marvi Sirmed | Title Project Manager NDP Role Journalist Spouse(s) Sirmed Manzoor | |
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Marvi sirmed suggested some suggestions at saath forum 2016 london
Marvi Sirmed (Urdu: ماروی سرمد) is a Pakistani secularist-liberal commentator and columnist.
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- Marvi sirmed suggested some suggestions at saath forum 2016 london
- Sawal Yeh Hai 24th March 2017
- Personal life
- Journalism and work experience
- Organizational activism and feminism
- International activism
- References
Sawal Yeh Hai 24th March 2017
Personal life
Marvi Anwar was born on June 11th, 1970 in Sunni Muslim family. She has also used the name Shazia Anwar in past. She is the daughter of Chaudhary Anwar-ul-Haq. She is married to the journalist Sirmed Manzoor. She has a daughter named Rohail Sirmed.
Journalism and work experience
Marvi Sirmed started her career as a journalist in 1990. She began working as an article writer in different national dailies, such as Daily News, Daily Jang, Khabrein. She has also taught chemistry and English linguistics at a public school in Pakistan. Sirmed has covered wars in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Bosnia, Azad Kashmir and Sri Lanka.
She has also worked as the National Project Manager of a parliamentary development project for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Strengthening Democracy through Parliamentary Development (SDPD) in Pakistan. In addition, she worked as an Institutional Development Specialist with the Ministry of Women Development (Government of Pakistan) and as a Policy Advocacy Specialist with National Commission on the Status of Women, as a UNDP expert.
In 2012, she was shot at by unidentified gunmen, but escaped unhurt.
Organizational activism and feminism
She joined the South Asia Partnership Pakistan and has established many organizations for women working in Punjab and Sindh. In 2000, she joined the Institute of Overseas Pakistanis and contributed in Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency. She also joined the Aurat Foundation's Legislative Watch Programme in 2001, working for the betterment of women. She is affiliated with the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA).
International activism
Sirmed was the part of International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) run by the State Department of the United States of America, in 2004. She is a member of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WIPSA), Women’s Action Forum, Insaani Haqooq Ittehad, Pakistan India Peoples Forum, South Asian Free Media Association, and Pakistan Forum for Social Democracy. She has been visiting the SAARC region as member of high-profile delegations.