Changing the world, one friendship a time
Sabah Khan |
TEDxPalmBeachRdWomen
• December 2019
Sabah Khan is an activist whose interests are minority rights with a focus on women. Sabah co-founded Parcham, an organization dedicated to breaking stereotypes and committed to a just world, respectful of diversity. Parcham is best known for introducing the football initiative for adolescent girls in Muslim ghettos. Parcham created history with the first ever reservation by the Municipal Corporation of a sports ground for girls in the country. Parcham’s work, documented in a film ‘Under the Open Sky’ by the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has been screened at multiple venues in India and abroad.
Currently, Sabah is a consultant to the Transforming M East Ward Project, TISS, that seeks to create a model of inclusive urban development in one of the poorest municipal wards in Mumbai. She is also a member of the core group of the people’s campaign ‘Hamara Shehar Mumbai’ on the Development Plan of Mumbai 2014-2034. Sabah is also a part of the ‘Muslim Women’s Rights’ Network’, a group advocating the rights of Muslim women and Gender Just laws since its inception in 1999. She was responsible for the formulation of the Progressive Nikahnama, an assertion of the rights of Muslim women.With a post graduate degree in social work from TISS, Sabah has worked for more than two decades with developmental organizations on issues of urban poverty and minority rights.