Farah Karimi

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Farah Karimi (born November 15, 1960 in Bidschar Garros , Iran ) is a Dutch politician .

From 1998 to 2006 she was a member of the Dutch Second Chamber for the GroenLinks party . She studied industrial design in Isfahan and was active in the resistance against the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini .

In 1983 she fled to Germany, after being recognized as a person entitled to asylum, she first lived in Hamburg , then began to study mathematics in Kiel . In 1989 she moved to Groningen and studied "International Relations and International Organizations" at the University of Groningen .

Farah Karimi headed the AISA project for the emancipation of black, migrant and refugee women in Utrecht for four years . In parliament she was the spokeswoman for foreign policy, development cooperation and defense for her group. It initiated the Dutch referendum on the draft EU constitution and initiated tightening of arms export legislation .

In early 2007 Karimi worked for the United Nations Development Program, UNDP. There she was a senior advisor within the SEAL project (support for the establishment of the Afghan legislature): In doing so, she supported various committees of the Afghan National Assembly. Farah Karimi has been the general director of Oxfam Novib since November 2007.

Outside employment

  • Board member Parliamentarians for Global Action , 2006
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World , Leiden (Netherlands), since 2004
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Radio Nederland Training Centrum (Dutch Center of Excellence in Media) (RNTC), since 2002
  • Chairwoman of the Zuid Noord Federatie (South-North Federation), 2000–2002
  • Member of the advisory board of the Vluchtelingenorganisaties Nederland (Refugee Organizations of the Netherlands), 1998–2001
  • Board member of Groenlinks (Dutch GreenLeft Party), 1997–1998
  • Member of the Transact Expert Commission - Landelijk expertisecentrum seksespecifieke zorg en seksueel geweld (Dutch Expertise Center for Gender-Specific Health Care and Sexual Violence), 1996–1998
  • Member of the advisory board of Algemeen Maatschappelijk Werk (general social work), Groningen, 1993–1994

Book publications

  • "Hetkret van het vuur" (The Secret of Fire), (with Chris Keulemans) Arena Amsterdam, 2005,
  • "Slagveld Afghanistan" (Afghanistan battlefield), Nieuw Amsterdam 2006,

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  1. ↑ www.pgaction.org
  2. ↑ www.farahkarimi.info
  3. ↑ www.vluchtelingenorganisaties.nl
  4. ↑ www.groenlinks.nl
  5. ↑ www.boekenarena.nl ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boekenarena.nl
  6. ↑ www.nieuwamsterdam.nl ( Memento of the original dated February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nieuwamsterdam.nl
personal data
SURNAME Karimi, Farah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Garros (Iran)