Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver Quaid-i-Azam University
Occupation
Human rights activist
Organization(s)
Aware Girls Humanists International
Movement
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Parents
Muhammad Ismail[2] (father)
Uzlifat Ismail[2] (mother)
Relatives
Saba Ismail[3] (sister)
Family
Saba Ismail (sister)
Awards
International Humanist of the Year Award (2014) Commonwealth Youth Award for Asia (2015) Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention (2016) Anna Politkovskaya Award (2017)
Website
awaregirls.org
Gulalai Ismail (Pashto: ګلالۍ اسماعیل; Urdu: گلالئی اسماعیل; born 30 October 1986) is a Pakistani human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is the chairperson of Aware Girls, a global ambassador for Humanists International, and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).[2] She speaks on the subject of promoting peace and women's empowerment at conferences internationally, and is the recipient of the International Humanist of the Year Award, the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.
In 2019, during the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Ismail fled Pakistan and took refuge in the United States after fearing for her life for speaking out against sexual assaults and disappearances allegedly carried out by the Pakistani military.[4] In March 2021, she became a global ambassador for Humanists International.[5]
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^ abcHashim, Asad (12 April 2021). "Pakistani court grants bail to father of prominent activist". Al Jazeera. Gulalai Ismail is a prominent award-winning gender rights activist and is a leading member of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a rights group that calls for accountability for alleged rights abuses committed by the Pakistani military and which has faced widespread restrictions for its work.
^Gray, Lucy Anna (18 November 2018). "Forgotten Women: One detained and another receiving threats from across the world - meet human rights activists the Ismail sisters". The Independent.
^"After Months on the Run, Pakistani Rights Activist Says She Will Continue Her Struggle from U.S." Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 19 September 2019.
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GulalaiIsmail (Pashto: ګلالۍ اسماعیل; Urdu: گلالئی اسماعیل; born 30 October 1986) is a Pakistani human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is...
Mohsin Dawar, Mir Kalam, Alamzaib Mahsud, Abdullah Nangyal, Fazal Khan, GulalaiIsmail, Sanna Ejaz, Wranga Loni, and the late Arman Loni, Arif Wazir, Usman...
rights. Aware Girls was formed in Peshawar in 2002 by sisters GulalaiIsmail and Saba Ismail, at the time aged 16 and 15 respectively. They began by campaigning...
Saba Ismail (born 1987 or 1988) is a Pakistani human-rights activist who co-founded Aware Girls with her sister GulalaiIsmail in 2002. She is the 2013...
marches at various places, including Bajaur, Bannu, Chaman, Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Islamabad, Karachi, Khyber, Killa Saifullah, Lahore, Loralai, North...
trained with local girls' empowerment organisation, Aware Girls, run by GulalaiIsmail, whose training included advice on women's rights and empowerment to...
Humanism Award 2013: Terry Pratchett, Humanist of the Year Award 2014: GulalaiIsmail and Wole Soyinka, International Humanist of the Year Award (both presented...
Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2002 to 2007 Sardar Ali Haqqani - Islamic scholar GulalaiIsmail - Pashtun human rights activist Nigar Johar - Only Female General in...
Kacem El Ghazzali and Alber Saber in 2013; human rights defenders GulalaiIsmail and Agnes Ojera in 2014; humanist activist and survivor of an anti-secularist...
prevent it and protect women." In 2002, women's rights activists Saba and GulalaiIsmail founded Aware Girls, a grassroots women's rights initiative to empower...
Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. One of the champions for Pakistan is GulalaiIsmail, chairperson of Aware Girls an organisation with which Yousafzai trained...
2018. "Malala received OPEC Fund Award". Retrieved March 21, 2013. "GulalaiIsmail wins the 2016 Chirac Peace Prize for the Prevention of Conflict". December...
10th-anniversary award for Valentina Cherevatenko (1956–), Russia 2017: GulalaiIsmail (1986–), Pakistan and Gauri Lankesh (1962–2017), India 2018: Svetlana...
family were forced to flee Waziristan to settle in IDP refugee camps in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The family fled from their home in Waziristan...
Constitution Initiative in China. 2013 Youth pro-democracy activists GulalaiIsmail Pakistan Human rights activist that established Aware Girls at the...
Wanna, South Waziristan. While studying law at the Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, he was influenced by the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) group...
Club in Islamabad along with dozens of other PTM activists including GulalaiIsmail during protests against the extrajudicial murder of one of the leaders...
gatherings in Islamabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore, Swat, Karachi, Dera Ismail Khan, Swabi, Bannu, Tank, as well as other cities and towns, in which one...
a Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy, as well as activist GulalaiIsmail as she is falsely accused of blasphemy. When he was initially approached...
reaction to the murder, during which dozens of its activists, including GulalaiIsmail and Abdullah Nangyal, were arrested by Pakistani authorities. The arrests...
Tehsil, South Waziristan, because of their protest against landmines in Dera Ismail Khan a few days earlier. However a day later, they were released by the...
Killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud Tahir Dawar Arman Loni Abdullah Nangyal GulalaiIsmail "5th anniversary of APS attack: Families of victims pledge to serve...
arrests in front of press clubs in Peshawar, Quetta, Swat, Swabi, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Zhob, Loralai, Killa Saifullah, Ziarat, Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi...
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