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Anil Kumar

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Anil Kumar is a social activist and human rights defender and is specifically working for women rights. He is a Bussiness graduate with majors in HR and is currently preparing for his MBA from abroad. Throughout his academic career, he has been associated and working with many social and welfare organisations in different capacities but with one agenda and that is to promote and build a society which is more inclusive, less reactive, & violence free specially for women and minorities. Because he Personally, does not appreciate the concept of one religion, one gender, one language or even one opinion. He says; “We all are humans but with different thoughts, and different intellects, how one can expect all to agree on something that he thinks is right. Fundamentally, this whole concept is vague and so irrelevant in today’s time, that must be addressed cautiously otherwise the consequence in form of extremism are there to see.”

Therefore, his work mainly revolves around inclusive society. He did his Train The Young Trainer and became a certified trainer to address and advocate such subjects efficiently. It was his passion and desire to serve community that despite all the hurdles kept him going. He participated in many national and international conferences and workshops where he highlighted situation of women in general and then women of minorities in Pakistan. He organised sessions in his university on women rights. He organised and participated in multiple peaceful protests against forced conversions. Furthermore, he led the first youth conference of in Hyderabad where students from all three universities came together and learnt about leadership and personal responsibility. He is also an alumni of the YOUNG LEADERS CONFERENCE and the centre for human rights education. He activily ran his post conference social action projects on enhancing interfaith harmony, building peace and including women in decision making. He is also the winner of master the disaster; a project by UNDP through which he worked in mithi to fight against locusts that were damaging crops. He also participated in youth led policy by solf in collaboration with UNDP to involve and aware youth about policy making. He has also worked as volunteer in his initial years of social activism. He was involved in campus drives and ramzan derives to create awareness and acceptance for other faiths. Over all, his journey has been like a roller coaster, he has been threatened many a times because of condemning the wrong but his vision never let him quit. He envisions Jinnah’s Pakistan that is inclusive, peaceful and prosperous.