Background
Marvi Anwar was born on June 11th, 1970 in Sunni Muslim family. She is the daughter of Chaudhary Anwar-ul-Haq.
human rights activist journalist
Marvi Anwar was born on June 11th, 1970 in Sunni Muslim family. She is the daughter of Chaudhary Anwar-ul-Haq.
She is also a political commentator, freelance columnist, human rights activist and secularist. 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 (United Nations Development Programme), 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 United Nations Development Programme expert. In 2012, she was shot at by unidentified gunmen, but escaped unhurt.
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.
Organizational activism and feminism
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 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation region as member of high profile delegations.