Husein Muhammad
Husein Muhammad

Husein Muhammad is a commissioner of Indonesia’s National Commission on Violence against Women. He is one of the founders of Fahmina Institute (in 1999), an NGO that advocates women’s issues using an Islamic framework and reinterpretation of Islamic classical literature, tafsir and fiqh. Muhammad has also written many articles and books about gender and women’s issues in Islam. Muhammad led an anti-trafficking media campaign, which included the distribution of 22,000 leaflets each week in mosques after Friday prayers, along with outreach to village health clinics. His scholarship highlights the Islamic perspective on victims’ rights, the rights of women and children, and the immorality of human trafficking, while emphasizing that victims should not be criminalized and that communities have a responsibility to combat trafficking.

Source of Influence: Social Issues

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