Fakhra Salimi (born 18 November 1957 in

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) is a Pakistani-born Norwegian

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activist, feminist, journalist and editor. She is founder and executive director of the

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. The centre has

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with the

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and is under the royal patronage of

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. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Norwegian Centre Against Racism (1980–2003), a co-founder and member of the board of the directors of the

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(1990–1995), a member of the advisory council of the Norwegian Study of Power and Democracy (1998–2003), a board member of

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, a jury member of the Norwegian government's Human Rights Prize for Journalists (2005–2009), and was a co-founder and the first vice president of the

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. Salimi moved to Norway in 1979, and has studied sociology, anthropology, and media and communication studies. She worked as a journalist with the

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in the early 1980s. Her brother

Khalid Salimi Khalid Salimi ( ur, خالد سلیم; born 23 May 1954) is a human rights activist, culture and arts critic, former music columnist for weekly Morgenbladet and an advisor on cross-cultural and art-related issues for the Nordic Culture Fund. He is ...

is also a prominent human rights activist in Norway.

Awards

*Gender Equality Prize of the

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, 1999 *

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Norway, 2005 *Public Health Prize, 2005 *Girls' Prize of Plan Norway *Prize for the Advancement of the Rule of Law (Rettssikkerhetsprisen) of the

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, 2015 *

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References

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