User:Aamir Khadim/sandbox

Ghazala Shafique
Ghazala (Urdu غزالہ شفیق; born 3rd september 1965) is a pakistani female pastor and a social activist. She is known as a Human rights Activist and a religious influencer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She advocates on women's rights, and issues such as forced religious conversions, forced marriages of minor girls.

Early Life and Education
Ghazala, who was born and raised in Faislabad, completed her early schooling there before moving to the UK to pursue a degree in economics. Furthermore, she also obtained her Masters of Divinity from Saint Thomas' Theological College in Karachi, after which she followed her religious career and began practicing Christianity.

Activism
Ghazala realized that christians in Pakistan were not able to get equality in the society so she began to raise her voice for their rights, education and equality, paticularly for Christian girls and women.

During years of service in the church and in the society, she and her female companions started the Aurat March   , which eventually spread across the country. Following the Aurat March's successful spred, she established the Minority Rights March with leaders of other minority communities to address concerns specifically facing minorities including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others.

Force Conversions & marriages
The primary focus of Ghazala's activism is forced marriages of underage Christian girls and forced religious conversions. She has helped and freed numerous Christian and Hindu girls from the clutches of forced marriage and forced religious conversion, among the well-known cases she handled and recoverd were those of Arzoo Raja, Neha Parvez , and Michelle Adnan.

She now runs a shelter, Living Hope Shelter for these victim girls where she studies, learns skills, and empower them to be a confident member of mainstream society.

Many of these girls are now volenteers at Aurat March, Minority Rights March and other social Movements.

Church of Eunuchs (Transgenders)
Between 2019-2020, Ghazala founded a ground-breaking church in Pakistan that is exclusively for Christian Eunuchs (Transgenders) people. Ghazala's this Inititive offers a safe haven where these folks can find acceptance and spiritual support, in response to the dearth of inclusive spaces for them. These people, who were before disenfranchised and driven into begging and other menial jobs, now have a place to pray and restore their dignity.

Tributes and recognition
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2277308/they-kept-us-safe-by-risking-their-own-lives