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09 March 2010
Colonel Shafiqa Quraishi of Afghanistan
Colonel Shafiqa Quraishi is the director of Gender, Human and Child Rights within the Ministry of the Interior. She began her career in the Afghan National Police.
As director of Gender, Human and Child Rights, Quraishi created and led a working group on the Afghan National Gender Recruitment Strategy, with the goal of increasing the number of women working in the Ministry of the Interior to 5,000 and improving the quality of the ministry’s service to the women of Afghanistan. Beyond recruiting women, she’s worked toward securing benefits and incentives to increase the number of women in the work force, including child care, health care, maternity care, security and skills training.
Quraishi has succeeded in securing promotions for women working in the Afghan National Police who had been unfairly passed over for advancement for years. She works in close partnership with those responsible for training the police force, and works to raise public awareness of gender rights and the important role that women can hold as police officers.
