Shabnam Hashmi

Shabnam Hashmi (born 1957) is an Indian social activist and human rights campaigner. She started her social activism campaigning about adult literacy in 1981. Since 1989 she has spent most of her time in combating communal and fundamentalist forces in India. After the Gujarat riots of 2002, Hashmi changed her focus to grass roots work and has spent a considerable amount of time in Gujarat. In 2003 she was one of the founders of ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy), which she administers. She also works in Kashmir, Bihar and Mewat area of Haryana.

She has campaigned against communalism and violation of human rights in the name of fighting terrorism. She was involved in exposing the terror links of the Hindutva forces.

Hashmi has focused on issues of women's political participation, adoption, gender justice, democracy and secularism.

Hashmi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 women from across the world in 2005. She was awarded the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) Star Award for Communal Harmony in 2005, Aamil Smriti Samman in 2005 and the National Minority Rights Award 2008 by the National Minority Commission.

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