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Ayesha Imam Quotes

Nigeria

Ayesha Imam is a Nigerian born human rights activist. She is a former Chief of the Culture, Gender and Human Rights department of the United Nations Population Fund and a founding member and pioneer national coordinating secretary of Women in Nigeria.

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We must establish that even when abuses are perpetrated in the name of Islam, they can and must be challenged.

We have to critique both externally and internally.

If we only criticize from the outside, it doesn't do anything for the victim of the charge.

Women's human rights as a part of a panoply of human rights for everybody.

It's less about religious identity and more about aspirations for personal security, law and order, anti-corruption and social justice.

We insist on being able to reclaim and contribute to international human rights discourse rather than allowing it to be seen as only western.

It is not easy to make an automatic assumption that civilian rule means more women's rights.

People must say, "That's our right and we are going to do something to get it."

Human rights are not the exclusive province of international human rights law or international human rights organizations.

The issue is not what Islam is or isn't. It's the use that some Muslims make of Islam.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ayesha Imam (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.