Ms. Aisha Mughal 

Aisha is a transgender woman, an activist, a qualified researcher, and a trainer. She is working with the Ministry of Human Rights as a UNDP Expert Consultant. She has been working for transgender empowerment, health, and rights in Pakistan since 2015 and has achieved several milestones.

Aisha Mughal was one of the country’s delegates at the UN convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 2020 in Geneva which was led by the Ministry of Human Rights Pakistan and granted the honor to Pakistan to become the first country in the world to include a legally recognized transgender woman.

Aisha has the honor of becoming Pakistan’s first Transgender lecturer and first Transgender person to serve as a consultant in any Federal Ministry of Pakistan. She has successfully broken the negative stereotypes about her community. She has earned her Mphil and BBA degrees from COMSATS Islamabad and has taught at Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal Universities and other educational institutions.

Her research paper on Transgender people has been published by Tailor and Francis (impact factor publication) and paper on HIV has been published in Gulf Medical journal. She was a member of the National Task Force on Transgender Bill and has played an important role in getting the transgender bill passed by the Government of Pakistan. This Bill is now an Act i.e. Transgender Persons (protection of rights) Act 2018. She has also served as a focal person for transgender rights at the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), Government of Pakistan.