Linked with European Journal of Migration and Law, and with ‘Centra Asia – Tadjikistan – Dushanbe‘ on our AEHRF pictures blog.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « It is very easy to hurt those who are unprotected, and very difficult to secure their safety, liberty, and happiness ».
Gavkhar Juraeva – Tajikistan
She works for Migration and Law (ref. on Queen Mary University, London),
and for Loik.
An art historian and area studies expert by education, and an editor, writer of documentary and feature films, and political mediator by profession, Gavkhar Juraeva is devoted to serving the truth, and with it, those who suffer and need her help. In the post-Soviet period, when a bloody civil war broke out in her country, she served as a mediator and sought to protect those who suffered at the margins, on both sides of the conflict. She was forced to leave her country in 1992. Gavkhar continues her fight from Russia, her adopted home. She is a writer, editor, and critic. (Read all on 1000peacewomen 2005).