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Saeed Khan Falahi (* 4. August 1969 at Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian Peace and Human Rights activist. His name is Mohd. Abdul Saeed Khan, but he is publically known as Saeed Khan Falahi (Falah is Arabic for welfare).

Studies and Career

Saeed Khan Falahi has studied at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in India and has achieved the degree “Master of Commerce”. After that he has been working as a Lecturer of Commerce at various colleges.

Volunteers for Human Rights and Peace

As a member of Amnesty International, his main issues are human rights – such as equal rights for women and men, child rights, the right to life (campaigning against the death penalty), etc. He is also campaigning for inter-religious understanding and harmony which he is considering to have a huge impact to achieve world peace. Saeed Khan Falahi is an independent, non-party socialist and some of his special themes are poverty, malnutrition, child labour, child marriage, femicide, dowry murder, and so on, which all are found in many countries of the world, and also in India. He runs several websites to educate people and to create awareness. Links can be found in the Weblinks below.

Occasionally, he organizes events on human rights, like letter writings for Amnesty International, different events for Asia Pacific Youth Network (A.P.Y.N.), and events for peace and human rights. On February 7, 2013 Saeed Khan Falahi organized the "World Interfaith Harmony & Global Peace Day" at his home town Shahjahanpur (Photos). On February 7, 2014 he organized again an event for for the same purpose as 2013 named "An ordinary step for ensuring extraordinary peace" (Photos) (Media Resonance) (Video Message).

Awards and Nominations

2013 Saeed Khan Falahi was nominated for the Martin-Ennals-Award for Human Rights Defenders.

Also in 2013 he was nominated for the People’s Choice Award, where he achieved the 2nd place after Julian Assange who won this award 2013.

In February 2014, Saeed Khan Falahi was awarded the Silver Medal for his 2nd Event for Peace and Interfaith Harmony within the frame of the World Interfaith Harmony Week 2014 (WIHW) by King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Membership of International Organizations

Amnesty International Since August 2010

Control Arms Coalition Since September 2010

Asia Pacific Youth Network (APYN) Online Facilitator Since September 2012

CHILDLINE India Foundation Since August 2012

Publications

"The Position of Child Rights in India", Author: Saeed Khan Falahi Link

Press Articles and Videos

Interview with a poor widow in India Link

Interview with a social volunteer educating poor children in India Link

Press article in the Indian newspaper Amarujala about "World Interfaith Harmony & Global Peace Day", organized by Saeed Khan Falahi Link

Press article in the Indian newspaper Jaglan from February 11, 2013 about "World Interfaith Harmony & Global Peace Day" Link

Article in the German local newspaper "Freies Wort" Ilmenau from March 1, 2013 Link

Weblinks

1. Personal Website
2. Saeed Khan Falahi on Facebook
3. Facebook site against death penalty
4. Facebook site for harmony and peace
5. Facebooksite for children and women rights
6. Nomination text for Martin-Ennals-Award
7. Petition "Stop issuing arms and ammunition license to the citizens of India"
8. Petition "Mahatma Gandhi must be declared officially as the Father of Nation."
9. Worldinterfaithharmonyweek "Greetings from India. It is an unavoidable need of hour to make sincere efforts to spread the spirit of mutual understanding, love, global brotherhood in order to restore universal peace. To achieve universal peace it is so necessary to enhance mutual understanding and respect among all the people of different religions and cults. We all must pay proper respect and honor to all the inter religious and inter cultural festivals and events in order to grow mutual understanding among different religions and cults. We all must keep in mind that paying respect and honor to other religions creates mutual understanding that is the mother of Peace."
10. Huffingtonpost

Comment 1 “We all need global peace now. Global peace can be attained through only mutual love, understanding, inter religious harmony and spirit of co-existence. We all further must have to be united against those elements who are indulged in spreading the politics of hate. We all have to fight against all types of hate, discrimination and injustice in each part of the world in order to make our globe a beautiful place to live. Please come forward to fight for peace and human rights for all." Comment 2 “We all must at least think that how should we treat a person before us who is too a human as we are. We are claimed to be civilized and strong advocate of human rights then why shouldn't we stand against all human rights abuses in all regions of the world without having any partiality in a quite transparent way. We all must not support any religious fanaticism and revengeful violent happenings in the world without any type of regional, religious, racial, political, economical discrimination and partiality. Today, a majority of people in the world, are of this opinion that the death penalty is not relevant in this modern and civilized world, it is quite barbaric and inhumane and it also violates the right to live. All the humanitarian and human rights organizations have the same opinion against death penalty. Many governments in the world have removed the death penalty and it is a fact that the crime ratio has been miraculously decreased there. Any law can not be revengeful towards a person who committed a crime, all criminals must be punished but not be murdered. The doctrine of tit for tat or eye for eye or blood for blood must be rejected because we are not living in ancient periods. Death penalty must be ended in all countries of the world."