Hameeda Hossain
{{Short description|Bangladeshi lawyer and activist}}
{{infobox person
|name=Hameeda Hossain
|native_name=হামিদা হোসেন
|native_name_lang = bn
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1936}}
|birth_place = Hyderabad, Sindh, British India (now in Pakistan)
| spouse = {{marriage|Kamal Hossain|1964}}
|alma_mater = {{ubl|Wellesley College|Oxford University (PhD)}}
}}
Hameeda Hossain ({{nee|Akhund}}; born 1936) is a Bangladeshi human rights activist and academic. She has published many books and articles relating to human rights and women's issues in Bangladesh, in Islam, and worldwide.{{cite web|url=http://www.sacw.net/auteur489.html|title=Hameeda Hossain|publisher=South Asia Citizens Web|access-date=19 December 2013}} She is a founding member of Ain o Salish Kendra, a legal aid and human rights organization.
In 1969, in the then East Pakistan, along with economist Rehman Sobhan she founded English-language monthly current affairs magazine, Forum. The magazine became renowned for its outspoken criticism against the West Pakistani establishment, and advocacy of democracy and economic reforms in the Pakistani union.
Hossain is a member of the board of directors of the Centre for Secular Space, an international human rights organization that stands for International Defense Against Religious Extremism.{{cite web|url=http://www.centreforsecularspace.org/about-us/team/|title=Board of Directors|publisher=Centre for Secular Space|access-date=19 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131219153325/http://www.centreforsecularspace.org/about-us/team/|archive-date=19 December 2013}}
Early life and education
File:Dr. Kamal Hossain at Notre Dame University Bangladesh.jpg (2015)]]
Hameeda was born on December 28, 1936 to a Sunni Muslim family of Akhands in Hyderabad, Sindh (present-day Pakistan).{{cite web|url=http://opinion.bdnews24.com/bangla/%E0%A6%A1-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8|title=হামিদা হোসেন|work=Bdnews24.com|access-date=8 December 2016|archive-date=11 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511111528/http://opinion.bdnews24.com/bangla/%E0%A6%A1-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8|language=bn}} Her father, Abdullah Shafi Muhammad Akhand was a judge posted to various cities in the British Raj.{{cite web |title=Hameeda Hossain |url=https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/story/301 |website=The 1947 Partition Archive}} Her mother was raised in Turkey and returned to Bengal aged sixteen where she got married. Hameeda was the youngest of three girls and three boys.{{cite web |title=Hameeda Hossain [Oral history interview by Kris Manjapra] |url=https://corpora.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:36 |website=Bengali Cultural Heritage in the Postcolonial Age |publisher=Tufts University}}
The children lived with their mother in Karachi.{{cite AV media |people=Hameeda Hossain |date=16 May 2012 |title=Dr. Hameeda Hossain lived in Hyderabad, Sindh, during 1947 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnunRcF-do |time=0:47 minutes in |publisher=The 1947 Partition Archive |via=YouTube |quote=We stayed in Karachi with my mother, while he stayed wherever his work station was.}} She attended a convent school in Karachi. She graduated from Wellesley College in the US and earned a PhD from Oxford University.
Personal life
File:Kamal Hossain and Hameeda Hossain.jpg
Hossain is married to Kamal Hossain since 1964.{{Cite web|date=2014-07-11 |title=Kamal Hossain Interview (Part 1) |url=https://alalodulal.org/2014/07/11/kamal-hossain/ |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=আলাল ও দুলাল|language=en}} Kamal has been the president of the Gano Forum political party in Bangladesh since he founded it in 1992.{{cite news |title=Two decades of Gono Forum |url=http://probenews.com/utility/emaillists/printview/4f2db660-626c-443d-9395-2672416fb142/ams/Newsarticle |publisher=Probenews |date=4 February 2012 |access-date=22 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193001/http://probenews.com/utility/emaillists/printview/4f2db660-626c-443d-9395-2672416fb142/ams/Newsarticle |archive-date=29 October 2013 }} They have two daughters, including Dina Hossain, a film maker, and Sara Hossain, a lawyer and writer{{cite news|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2011/12/01/nurul-kabir-to-continue-his-defence-on-dec-20 |title=Nurul Kabir to continue his defence on Dec 20|newspaper=BDNews24 |date=1 December 2011 |access-date=17 February 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=184303 |title=Yunus verdict today |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=5 May 2011 |access-date=18 February 2013}} who is the co-editor of {{'}}Honor{{'}}: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence Against Women.{{cite book|editor=Lynn Welchman & Sara Hossain |title='Honor': Crimes, Paradigms and Violence Against Women|year=2005 |publisher=Zed Books |place=London |access-date=22 December 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujwLunL_rrQC&q=%22David+Bergman%22+%22Sara+Hossain%22&pg=PR9|isbn=9781842776278}}
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