Gita Sahgal

Gita Sahgal is a British feminist, secularist and human rights campaigner. Born in Bombay, Sahgal became involved in activism after graduating from the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.[1] She has been involved in a number of organisations, co-founding Southall Black Sisters in 1979 and Women Against Fundamentalism in 1989.[2][3][1]

Sahgal became head of Amnesty International's gender unit in 2003 but was suspended by the organisation after she objected to its support for Moazzam Begg, a Taliban sympathiser.[4]

She is currently the executive director of Centre for Secular Space, which originated in 2010 and officially launched in 2013.[5][6] This independent think tank takes an overtly feminist stand in its promotion of human rights and opposition to terrorism.[7]

References
  1. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264315
  2. http://www.southallblacksisters.org.uk/sbs-timeline/
  3. http://www.wluml.org/node/5092
  4. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/25/gita-sahgal-amnesty-international
  5. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/02/a-long-overdue-counterblast-to-the-lefts-thinking-on-islamists/
  6. http://www.centreforsecularspace.org/?q=content/about-us
  7. http://www.centreforsecularspace.org/sites/default/files/CSS%20concept%20paper.pdf
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