Shafiqa Habibi

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Shafiqa Habibi (* 1946 ) is an Afghan journalist and politician. Habibi comes from a wealthy Pashtun family. She studied journalism at the University of Kabul (Bachelor 1966). She is a well-known news reporter for the Afghan radio and television station (RTA). She was the first female presenter on Afghan state television. Habibi was married to the writer and politician Mahmoud Habibi .

Life

Habibi has been a reporter since 1959 (first on radio, then on television). From the very beginning she was particularly committed to women's rights and founded the Women's Radio and Television Broadcast Organization in 1994 to protect women's rights through conferences and other meetings. After the Taliban came to power in Kabul in 1996, she had to withdraw from the public eye. However, she stayed in Kabul and directed a. a. secret schools for girls. When the American attack on Kabul began, she fled to Peshawar and returned after the Taliban had fled. Since then she has been active in numerous political positions and in particular for women's rights. Among other things, she is co-founder of the New Afghanistan Women Association and founding director of the Association of Women Journalists' Center . She was head of the Committee for Political Participation of Women and is a member of the Commission for Information and Communication of UNESCO Afghanistan. In the first free presidential elections in Afghanistan in 2004 she ran for the office of Vice President (on the ticket of the former warlord Raschid Dostum ).

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Habibi has been named the best announcer on Afghan radio and television five times. In 2002 she received the "Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism" for her work and was nominated as one of "21 Leaders for the 21st Century".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ann Marlowe: Burqas and Ballots . Salon.com. October 8, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  2. ↑ Where there is knowledge there is peace . New Afghanistan Women Organization. August 26, 2009. Accessed on January 31, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.womennawa.org.af  
  3. ^ A b Chris Lombardi: Seven Who Use Their Lives to Change Ours . WENews. January 3, 2002. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Rita Henley Jensen: Shafiqa Habibi Named for Bravery in Journalism . WENews. May 27, 2002. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  5. ^ Amin Tarzi: The Brief History of Media Freedom in Afghanistan . RFE / RL. January 3, 2002. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  6. ^ Second Take Kabul - guest list . mazefilm.de. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  7. ↑ Chehra Ha: Interview with Shafiqa Habibi . tolo.tv. January 9, 2008. Archived from the original on February 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tolo.tv
  8. ↑ Chris Lombardi: 21 Leaders for 21st Century 2002 . WENews. January 1, 2002. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Habibi, Shafiqa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1946