Hadiqa Bashir

Hadiqa Bashir (born 2002) is a Pakistani activist with a goal to end child marriages. She is the recipient of Asian Girls Human Rights Ambassador award and Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award.

Early life Bashir was ten years old when her grandmother wanted to marry her off. She had seen the plight of her classmate who was married at an early age and did not want to get married. Her uncle Erfaan Hussein, the founder of Girls United for Human Rights helped her push off the marriage. Since then, Bashir has been working in her community to help end child marriages.

Activism The journey for Bashir started after her own struggle to avoid a marriage. In 2014, she founded Girls United for Human Rights with her uncle to fight for women's rights.

In 2015, Bashir was awarded the third Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for dedicating her life to ending the practice of child marriages in Pakistan.