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Huma Jamshed

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Known For: President and Founder of ACESOP
Country: Spain

About

Dr. Huma Jamshed is the founder and president of the Cultural Educational and Social Association of Pakistani Women (ACESOP), an NGO that works to improve the quality of life of Pakistani and other immigrant women living in Spain.  ACESOP organizes a wide range of social and educational opportunities (i.e., Urdu, Spanish, and English classes) aimed at increasing interaction with the general public as well as maintaining and celebrating cultural and religious identity. Dr. Jamshed also works to improve the relationship between the Pakistani community in Spain and the Spanish population at-large.

Dr. Jamshed received a bronze medal from the Interior Ministry of Catalunya for her work. She is the Vice President of the Barcelona Municipal Immigration Counsel and a secretary of the platform for equality between Muslim women and men.  Dr. Jamshed has been involved in efforts to change discriminatory laws and regulations; she has addressed issues such as the prohibition of burka in public places of Spain. Moreover, she focuses on raising awareness of women’s rights through training women at a grassroots level. Dr. Jamshed is the first Pakistani women to complete her PhD in Chemistry from Madrid Spain. From 1989 to 1996, she served as a lecturer in chemistry at
Karachi’s Dawood College of Engineering and Technology.

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