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Sheepa Hafiza, a Bangladeshi Human Rights Activist. the executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights watchdog and legal aid organization. She is a seasoned executive widely recognized for her expertise in areas including policy advocacy for extreme poverty reduction, programme development, organizational change management, capacity strengthening; rights advocate for gender justice, migrant labor rights and ending child marriage.

Biography
Ms. Hafiza was born on 12 March 1956 into the esteemed Hafiz family in Sylhet, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Her father Abu Ahmed Abdul Hafiz was a famous lawyer, Mother Syed Shahar Banu Chowdhury. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, the Finance Minister of Bangladesh is her elder brother.

Work
Sheepa Hafiza is a person with diverse experiences of working in different areas ranging from grassroots level to the UN bodies. She has contributed to BRAC, Bangladesh for more than 20 years, contributing in different sectors in the diverse area such as gender justice, advocacy, networking, program development, and organizational development. Her last position at BRAC was Director of Gender Justice &amp; Diversity Programs and Migration Rights Programs. Ms. Hafiza worked as the Lead Faculty of the International Diploma Course on NGO Leadership and Management organized jointly with the School for International Training of Graduates School, Vermont, USA, Orap of Zimbabwe and BRAC. She was appointed at UN advisory groups including UN Peace Building Fund, UN Women Bangladesh and the UN Adolescent and Youths Theme group, Bangladesh.

She has excellent demonstrated capacity and courage in leading and managing institutional development &amp; change programmes, mainstreaming gender equality and harassment-free culture into decision-making, capacity building, designing and implementation of the strategy. She successfully facilitated upstream policy dialogue on issues of equality, inclusiveness, justice, and organizational culture transformation. Ms. Hafiza deserves a proven ability to create a momentum in the institutionalization of a decent work agenda, as well as enable a value-driven organizational culture. She has supported a large number of organizations to develop policy on gender, sexual harassment, and HR.

Ms. Hafiza is an expert in creating space for raising voice and choice. As founder and organizer running decade-long staff voice hearing talk with an open mind forums which provide input for organizational gender transformative policy. To meet the demand from other women (less fortunate) founded a BRAC MAYA Website ( www.maya.com.bd ) 2015 and mobile App named ‘Maya Apa&#39; first time developed an interactive App in Bangladesh - to receive anonymous queries and provides pertinent answers (within hours) to questions received on VAW, SRHR, stop child marriage, early pregnancy from any Bangladeshi women and girls. Within a year time (2016) a total of 7.1 million women and girls reached for accessing the BRAC Maya information services.

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